The Tech giant HP has revealed that they accept started a big bounty programme of $10,000 for safety researchers for finding whatsoever sort of vulnerabilities inwards their printers.
The programme is a individual big bounty, which focuses basically on HP hardware. As printers are frequently establish inwards a weak delineate concern network, which could endure compromised on a wider network system, particularly people ignore firmware updates or upgrades together with larn a prey of such avenues to exploit.
While speaking to ZDNet, an HP spokesperson said: "We're challenging researchers to search for obscure defects that could endure used against our customers.
We're providing researchers amongst remote access to a ready of Enterprise Multifunction printers together with invited researchers to focus on the potential for malicious actions at the firmware flat including CSRF, RCE, together with XSS."
Under this program, safety researchers tin earn betwixt $500 together with $10,000 per their findings.
"For years, the conversation almost cybersecurity has focused on software together with networking," said Shivaun Albright, HP's Chief Technologist of Print Security. "Today, bad actors are targeting endpoint devices. Protecting connected devices, similar printers, at the border of the network has larn paramount."
There is no fourth dimension boundary for this program, together with sooner or afterward HP is planning to extend their põrnikas bounty programme to its PC's also.
