Thursday, May 8, 2014

It’s Crazy What Can Be Hacked




Printers and Firewalls and Video Consoles

Researchers at the University of Michigan began a massive internet scan to find how widespread the problem really is. The number of devices still at risk is harrowing: HP printers, Polycom video conferencing systems, WatchGuard firewalls, VMWare systems, and Synology storage servers. Weaver counts tens of thousands of users of the Parallels Plesk Panel web hosting control panel that are vulnerable too — those could become a prime target of hackers looking to take control of websites.