Auernheimer told the New York Times he was behind a wave of racist print jobs that hit universities across the US.
ImgurA well-known hacker who goes by "weev" says he was the man behind fliers featuring swastikas and calls to join the "struggle for global white supremacy" that came out of printers around the USA earlier this week.
Nearly 10 years ago, security researcher Adrian Crenshaw noted that many printers were programmed to accept any printing job sent over the internet to their port 9100 (the same port Auernheimer exploited).
Police had begun investigating the source of the fliers last week, but it is unclear if Auernheimer broke any laws.
Cyber criminals are getting smarter by the day and giving them any gap in your PC, your network or indeed your printer could result in far bigger problems than an influx of offensive printouts.
Maryland and other schools received the fliers on March 24 that blamed Jewish people for destroying the cou ntry "through mass immigration and degeneracy", according to the Anti-Defamation League. The email described the incident as an "information security incident", and said the flyers were distributed to campus printers and faxes via an off-campus location.
McChesney-Young found the flier Thursday morning.
Auernheimer denied hacking any printers, remarking that the units affected are configured to receive documents from any sender, and characterised the action as a prank.
The attacker, Andrew Auernheimer, otherwise known by his online name Weev, targeted several universities across the United States, including Princeton University, Brown University and University of Southern California, Lucas said. Back in 2010, while a member of the Goatse Security group, Auernheimer exposed a flaw in a public AT&T server to Gawker Media before telling AT&T about it. This incident led to the exposure of details about 114,000 iPad users.
A spokesperson from Northeastern University said that their data security staff indicated that the hacking originated from overseas.
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