Security News > 2016 > March > Printers all over the US “hacked” to spew anti-Semitic fliers (Help Net Security)

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, one of the two men who were prosecuted and convicted for harvesting e-mails and authentication IDs of 114,000 early-adopters of Apple’s iPad from AT&T’s servers, is back to his old tricks: using publicly accessible assets for furthering his own goals. As described in an extensive blog post, he discovered a great number of printers accessible (without authentication) through port 9100 open to the Internet, and fed them a simple Bash script that … More →

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