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A Hacker Just Pwned Over 150,000 Printers Left Exposed Online

3 points by happy-go-lucky 10y ago

gregmac 10y ago
"Pwned" in this case is sending some text to port 9100 on a bunch of printers where this port is exposed. What would be more interesting to know is how many of these are printers with public IPs vs port 9100 forwarded from a NAT router, and of those, how many were done manually vs via uPnP?