Got a Brother Printer? It Could Have a Critical Security Flaw - How to Check and What to Do Next

PSA: If you have a Brother printer, change the password now

Almost 700 Brother printer models have been found to contain a number of serious security flaws that could allow an...

Hundreds of Brother printer models have security flaw that can't be patched

Many Brother printer models have a security flaw that cannot be patched. However, users can change the default password for a bit of protection.

Got a Brother printer? It could have a critical security flaw - how to check and what to do next

If your Brother printer is affected, you need to change its default admin password now. Here's how.

Are Brother's Insecure Printers Illegal in the UK?

Another day, another security disaster! This time, multiple printers from Brother have an unfixable security flaw. That's bad, obviously, but is it illegally bad0? Let's take a look at details of the vulnerability: An unauthenticated attacker who knows the target device's serial number, can generate the default administrator password for the device. Recently, the UK brought in some laws aimed at strengthening consumer protection - the Product Se…

Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers

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Got a Brother printer? It could have a critical security flaw - how to check and what to do next - WorldNL Magazine

Brother / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETHundreds of Brother printer models have been found to harbor a serious security flaw that can't be fully patched on existing devices. First noticed by Rapid7 in May and publicly disclosed on June 25, this unpatchable vulnerability lets an attacker who knows -- or can find out -- your printer's serial number generate its default administrator password.Also: Patch your Windows PC now before bootkit malware tak…