by Hunter Feybusch
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by Hunter Feybusch
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- Reminder that OAuth v1.0 authentification standard, co-developed by Microsoft, has been updated to OAuth 2.0 for data security reasons
- If customers have an older MFP that does have available new firmware to upgrade v 1.0 to 2.0, customers may have problems using some scanning features
- Example of how users may be impacted if still using OAuth 1.0:
- Google Workspace turned off less secure apps by March 14, 2025
- Microsoft ended legacy authentication on September 30, 2024
- UPS required updates on August 5, 2024, to continue using personal UPS accounts
o DocuSign ended support for v.1.0 on January 31, 2025.
o Users cannot connect via Google Sync
o On March 14, 2025: Access to less secure apps (IMAP, SMTP, POP, CALDAV) turned off
completely
o Microsoft 365/Email: Final deadline to transition away from basic authentication for
IMAP, POP, and SMTP is April 30, 2026
o (Konica Minolta offers firmware to support OAuth 2.0 for the i-Series of bizhub MFPs)
– Man in his 20s was arrested and sentenced to 2 years in prison in South Korea – Convicted of using a color MFP to make twenty 50,000 won banknotes Counterfeit bills used at convenience stores and restaurants
– Cyber Insider magazine published article about last week’s Pwn2Own hacking convention in Dublin, Ireland – Part of the event was a contest challenging hackers to compromise different brands of MFPs that were on stage – The following MFPs were successfully hacked, and prize money paid out: – Canon imageFORCE 1643F – Brother MFC-L8970cdw – […]
– Research published by Reliable Business Insights – Projected CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 14.6% – Global market valued at $22.1 billion – MPS market growth driven by: o shift in demand from ownership to outcome-based solutions moving away from the capital-intensive model of buying and maintaining a fleet of printers to an […]
– Research report published by IEEE Xplore – Analyzed reliability of more than 400,000 hard disk drives from a variety of manufacturers – Includes Hitachi, Seagate, Toshiba, Western Digital, etc. – Toshiba hard disk drives between 50 and 100 months old, had a failure rate of up to 6 of 1,000 drives per month o […]
