Bugtraq: Re: vulnerabilities of postscript printers

[Nicolas Gregoire <ngregoire () exaprobe com>]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:15, Dragos Ruiu wrote:

> Network attached printers are good portscanners in practice :-).
And their poor IP stacks are easy to use for Idle scans, allowing to
hide the real source of packets.

And you could too keep your sploits on their hard-drive, which could be
the only one of the network without an AV monitoring it.

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