#brotherprinters — Public Fediverse posts

1/? Called to a small office.
Two #Windows11 machines each showing two #BrotherPrinters as Offline.

But both printers are connected to the same WiFi router as the computers.

All dropped out last Thursday.

The "troubleshooting" offered by MS is on the level of drunk 20 year olds who don't give a fuck but who have been sucking on corporate-positive-doublespeak from birth.

Windows 3.1 came out 1992.
As unpleasant at times as #Linux is, this crap that #Microsoft dishes up is 10 times worse.

1/? Called to a small office.
Two #Windows11 machines each showing two #BrotherPrinters as Offline.

But both printers are connected to the same WiFi router as the computers.

All dropped out last Thursday.

The "troubleshooting" offered by MS is on the level of drunk 20 year olds who don't give a fuck but who have been sucking on corporate-positive-doublespeak from birth.

Windows 3.1 came out 1992.
As unpleasant at times as #Linux is, this crap that #Microsoft dishes up is 10 times worse.

Millions of Brother printers are at risk due to multiple critical vulnerabilities, including one that can't be patched and lets attackers generate admin passwords if they know the serial number. Users urged to change default passwords now! 🔒🖨️ #cybersecurity #infosec #BrotherPrinters

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/millions-of-brother-printers-threatened-by-multiple-serious-vulnerabilities-enterprise-and-home-printers-at-risk
#newz

Millions of Brother printers are at risk due to multiple critical vulnerabilities, including one that can't be patched and lets attackers generate admin passwords if they know the serial number. Users urged to change default passwords now! 🔒🖨️ #cybersecurity #infosec #BrotherPrinters

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/millions-of-brother-printers-threatened-by-multiple-serious-vulnerabilities-enterprise-and-home-printers-at-risk
#newz

Hundreds of Brother printer models are affected by a critical, unpatchable vulnerability (CVE-2024-51978) that allows attackers to generate the default admin password using the device’s serial number—information that’s easily discoverable via other flaws.

748 total models across Brother, Fujifilm, Ricoh, Toshiba, and Konica Minolta are impacted, with millions of devices at risk globally.

Attackers can:
• Gain unauthenticated admin access
• Pivot to full remote code execution
• Exfiltrate credentials for LDAP, FTP, and more
• Move laterally through your network

Brother says the vulnerability cannot be fixed in firmware and requires a change in manufacturing. For now, mitigation = change the default admin password immediately.

Our pentest team regularly highlights printer security as a critical path to system compromise—and today’s news is another example that underscores this risk. This is your reminder: Printers are not “set-and-forget” devices. Treat them like any other endpoint—monitor, patch, and lock them down.

Need help testing your network for exploitable print devices? Contact us and our pentest team can help!

Read the Dark Reading article for more details on the Brother Printers vulnerability: https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/millions-brother-printers-critical-unpatchable-bug

#CyberSecurity #PenetrationTesting #Pentest #Pentesting #PrinterSecurity #BrotherPrinters #CVE202451978 #Infosec #IT #SMB #CISO #Cyberaware #DFIR #ITSecurity #ZeroTrust #PatchNow #Pentest

Hundreds of Brother printer models are affected by a critical, unpatchable vulnerability (CVE-2024-51978) that allows attackers to generate the default admin password using the device’s serial number—information that’s easily discoverable via other flaws.

748 total models across Brother, Fujifilm, Ricoh, Toshiba, and Konica Minolta are impacted, with millions of devices at risk globally.

Attackers can:
• Gain unauthenticated admin access
• Pivot to full remote code execution
• Exfiltrate credentials for LDAP, FTP, and more
• Move laterally through your network

Brother says the vulnerability cannot be fixed in firmware and requires a change in manufacturing. For now, mitigation = change the default admin password immediately.

Our pentest team regularly highlights printer security as a critical path to system compromise—and today’s news is another example that underscores this risk. This is your reminder: Printers are not “set-and-forget” devices. Treat them like any other endpoint—monitor, patch, and lock them down.

Need help testing your network for exploitable print devices? Contact us and our pentest team can help!

Read the Dark Reading article for more details on the Brother Printers vulnerability: https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/millions-brother-printers-critical-unpatchable-bug

#CyberSecurity #PenetrationTesting #Pentest #Pentesting #PrinterSecurity #BrotherPrinters #CVE202451978 #Infosec #IT #SMB #CISO #Cyberaware #DFIR #ITSecurity #ZeroTrust #PatchNow #Pentest

Brother printers may be handing hackers the keys—689 models expose default admin passwords through a predictable algorithm. How safe is your device?

https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/understanding-and-mitigating-default-password-vulnerabilities-in-brother-printers/

#brotherprinters
#defaultpasswords
#cybersecurity
#vulnerability
#infosec

Collecting this year's failures by common computer #OperatingSystems.

#Windows11 : #SystemsInformation: Can't Select and Copy from the page. #DarkAgesComputing

#Linux (multiple variants but not all) Can't do #DoubleSided printing from #BrotherPrinters and, from what I read, #HPPrinters. Could formerly do this. Progressing in wrong direction. Sustainability/#GlobalWarming?

#OSFailuresIn2024

Collecting this year's failures by common computer #OperatingSystems.

#Windows11 : #SystemsInformation: Can't Select and Copy from the page. #DarkAgesComputing

#Linux (multiple variants but not all) Can't do #DoubleSided printing from #BrotherPrinters and, from what I read, #HPPrinters. Could formerly do this. Progressing in wrong direction. Sustainability/#GlobalWarming?

#OSFailuresIn2024

@nixCraft

That is so not funny.

It's the printers, the #BrotherPrinters, that take a year.

@nixCraft

That is so not funny.

It's the printers, the #BrotherPrinters, that take a year.

These days, whenever I print anything with my Brother MFC, the paper has diagonal scratches (on the picture here, I used a filter so it's easier to see).
I don't know where the problem is coming from.
Has anyone seen this before?

#BrotherPrinters
#TechSupport
#Printer
#Printers
#Imprimante

@arstechnica
#brotherprinters for life. Laser toner last forever and is cheap AF.

This “Refresh” ink program sounds too much like the dreaded #HP ink program that is so hard to escape. Is it a bad sign from Brother? #BrotherPrinters #ink #trap

https://www.brother-usa.com/supplies/ez-auto-reordering/refresh

This “Refresh” ink program sounds too much like the dreaded #HP ink program that is so hard to escape. Is it a bad sign from Brother? #BrotherPrinters #ink #trap

https://www.brother-usa.com/supplies/ez-auto-reordering/refresh

@Riedl
Honestly, true in my experience. I've never had to replace one due to problems or found the toner unreasonably priced for how often i print. I had one in the US, one in Germany, and now one in the UK and they work well. Most recent one worked right away with Windows 10 PCs, Fedora 34-37 PCs, and Android phones. #BrotherPrinters are excellent

@Riedl
Honestly, true in my experience. I've never had to replace one due to problems or found the toner unreasonably priced for how often i print. I had one in the US, one in Germany, and now one in the UK and they work well. Most recent one worked right away with Windows 10 PCs, Fedora 34-37 PCs, and Android phones. #BrotherPrinters are excellent