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Canon warns of Wi-Fi security risks when discarding inkjet printers

Canon is warning users of home, office, and large format inkjet printers that their Wi-Fi connection settings stored in the devices' memories are not wiped, as they should, during initialization, allowing others to gain access to the data.
- Bill Toulas
- July 31, 2023
- 12:51 PM
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Sonos, HP, and Canon devices hacked at Pwn2Own Austin 2021

During the first day of Pwn2Own Austin 2021, contestants won $362,500 after exploiting previously unknown security flaws to hack printers, routers, NAS devices, and speakers from Canon, HP, Western Digital, Cisco, Sonos, TP-Link, and NETGEAR.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 03, 2021
- 09:58 AM
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Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

Canon USA is being sued for not allowing owners of certain printers to use the scanner or faxing functions if they run out of ink.
- Bill Toulas
- October 16, 2021
- 10:28 AM
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Canon publicly confirms August ransomware attack, data theft

Canon has finally confirmed publicly that the cyberattack suffered in early August was caused by ransomware and that the hackers stole data from company servers.
- Ionut Ilascu
- November 26, 2020
- 02:38 PM
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The Week in Ransomware - August 14th 2020 - Crime made easy

Ransomware continues its siege on organizations worldwide, with new variants released every day and attacks continuing to be reported.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 15, 2020
- 11:42 AM
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Canon USA's stolen files leaked by Maze ransomware gang

A ransomware gang has published unencrypted files allegedly stolen from Canon during a ransomware attack earlier this month.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 14, 2020
- 12:57 AM
- 0
The Week in Ransomware - August 7th 2020 - Businesses under siege

This week illustrated how pervasive ransomware has become with news of two large and well-known companies getting hit with ransomware attacks, with more surely to come.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 07, 2020
- 04:57 PM
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Canon confirms ransomware attack in internal memo

Canon has suffered a ransomware attack that impacts numerous services, including Canon's email, Microsoft Teams, USA website, cloud photo and video storage service, and other internal applications.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 06, 2020
- 03:12 PM
- 1
Suspicious Canon outage leads to image.canon data loss

Canon's image.canon cloud storage service has resumed operations after an almost six-day outage that led to data loss for stored images and videos.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 04, 2020
- 02:33 PM
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