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Now its possible to get access to a printer in your LAN and print spams from the net!

Yes its been discovered by a guy named Aeron Weaver. He has actually found a loophole in the browsers through which spammers will get access to a LAN printer and can instruct it to print any message(read ads) they want.

The guy has used two concepts which had been here for a long time. The concepts are cross-site scripting attack and the manner in which browers handle IP(internet protocol) and leave lots of vulnerabilities.

For the attack to be launched in one`s browser, the person just has to visit a malicious site or a web-page which has the cross-site scripting error. The cracker/hacker then can send a javaxcript code in the browser which will find out a printer and can get the printing job done!

The concern will be very serious if and when the hackers will get a printer to send all the printing instructions that it gets. Then in that way they can have all or most of the information about an organisation.

He stated that he had already tested it successfully through Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Though there`s a `good thing` in it! That its only going to target LAN or network printers and not a standalone printer connected directly to a pc. Its a good thing cause individual pc users like you and me will not be vulnerable to this flaw.