White hat security researcher Michael Jordon has managed to get id Software’s genre-defining first-person shooter Doom running on a wireless Canon Pixma printer. The project, which took four months to ...

With wearable computers like Google Glass and Apple Watch wooing the tech obsessed, it's hard not to feel bad for older machines showing their age. Printers no doubt look at fax machines and imagine a ...

Another device, Canon’s Pixma printer, has joined the endless list of things that can run Doom. We might still have to wait for the “police radar gun” but ...

In an attempt to demonstrate a security flaw with the firmware of a Canon Pixma printer, one talented hacker made it possible to run Doom on it. Michael Jordon, who writes for Context, spent four ...

On Friday, a hacker presenting at the 44CON Information Security Conference in London picked at the vulnerability of Web-accessible devices and demonstrated how to run unsigned code on a Canon printer ...

If you can hack a wireless printer to play one of the most famous videogames of all time, what else can you do with it? And if printer hardware can be reprogrammed by hackers to perform functions far ...

An ethical hacker has demonstrated security vulnerabilities in connected devices - by running the 1993 video game Doom on a printer. Michael Jordon, from Context Information Security, used his talk at ...

Security researchers have raised new fears about the safety of Internet of Things connected devices after hacking the firmware on Canon Pixma printers to run cult 90s game Doom. The range of wireless ...

Net connected appliances might offer greater user convenience but they are also exposed to remote hacking. This kind of problem is only going to get bigger with the impending wave of devices which ...

Gamers have found ways to play Doom on all sorts of devices, but swapping your screen for an Epson thermal printer spitting out frames as fast as it can on receipt paper could be the worst. According ...

Some hackers enjoy defacing property or stealing sensitive data to demonstrate security vulnerabilities. Others, like Michael Jordon from Context Information Security, would rather get their point ...

12 September 2014: Researchers at Context Information Security have successfully managed to remotely access the web interface on a Canon Pixma printer and modify firmware from the Internet to run the ...