HP printers in 1980s-style firmware misconfiguration boo-boo

US CERT has issued an intriguing Vulnerability Note about a data and password leakage flaw in a number of HP printers.

It’s a bit of a trip down memory lane, whisking us all the way back to one of the bugs exploited by Robert Morris’s infamous Internet Worm back in 1988…

Story added 13. March 2013, content source with full text you can find at link above.