Security

German researchers can evade printer security dots

July 5, 2018

A team from the Technical University of Dresden has discovered how to defeat “the unique identifiers that printers can add to documents for security purposes”, as The Register reports. The original purpose of these unique identifiers is to defeat counterfeiters, as the extra dots added by printers can “help identify which device printed a document”. […]

Lexmark devices validated by certification

May 11, 2018

The OEM has announced it has achieved certification against the latest Common Criteria Security Protection Profile, Hardcopy Devices v1.0 (HCD-PP v1.0). The Protection Profile for HCD-PPv1.0 is based on security requirements specified by the U.S. and Japanese governments for printers, designed to assure device, document and network security. Common Criteria provides a framework to validate […]