In today’s world, everything is becoming wireless. User-friendliness and security have always been on two opposite sides of the old-fashioned... Show moreIn today’s world, everything is becoming wireless. User-friendliness and security have always been on two opposite sides of the old-fashioned scale when you give priority to one the second will get hit on somewhat level. This paper concentrates on the same thing in the case of printers. As wireless technology has been made available in the printers and they have got cheaper in recent time, the numbers of households owning the printers have increased dramatically in recent years. New printers use Wi-Fi direct or Wi-Fi AP technology to give wireless access to the user. Wi-Fi P2P also uses the same 802.11 protocol as Wi-Fi AP to help the user to print wirelessly; by directly connecting to or by directly sending commands and documents to the printers. We use a printer to print and scan important documents, which makes it a necessity, that the whole thing is secured. In this paper, I have tried to do analysis on possible security issues with wireless printers with the only wireless connection. The tests include the case where the bad guy will try to prevent the user to use the printer (DoS), from a distance and the case where the bad guy will try to sniff the packets or say important documents that the user is trying to print. I have tried to include different printers like HP, Brother, Canon to do testing, to get the overall idea of security in wireless printers. The first part includes the way of authentication available and the protocols used by the printers and the second part includes the possible ways to get bypass the security and recreate the printing materials that were printed by the user. Show less
