by Hunter Feybusch
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by Hunter Feybusch
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- Huawei Software Co. of China and Canon announced they will team up to develop a native HarmonyOS, Printing Ecosystem
- “New software for printers, drivers, relevant applications, and cloud printing.”
- Announced new partnership during the Huawei Smart Office Ecosystem Summit in Wuhan, China on December 26, 2024
- Now an official partner of Huawei’s HarmonyOS next ecosystem
- Huawei of China has been under investigation for years:
- U.S. Department of Justice in 2019, charged Huawei with bank fraud and stealing trade secrets
- Charged Huawei, its chief financial office, and two affiliated firms with a laundry list of crimes including Conspiracy, money laundering, bank and wire fraud
- A group of US senators has pushed to impose sanctions on Huawei as they believe the company is a U.S. security threat
- Numerous countries allege that the company’s products may purposely contain security holes that China’s government could use for spying purposes
- Also, some countries allege that Huawei steals intellectual property from foreign technology
Daily Cybersecurity magazine reported that new “critical vulnerabilities” have been found issues with the Ricoh Quick Agent Windows application for scanning and faxing Could allow a hacker to executive arbitrary code, steal files and conduct unauthorized login attempts
The Nano-Control International Foundation announced it is pushing for mandatory rules for the chemicals used in some toner cartridges Claim that one printed page could contain “billions of ultrafine microplastic and nanoplastic particles mixed with chemicals and heavy metals” “Those particles don’t just remain on the page, they could end up in the air” (Konica […]
Report from U.S. Department of Commerce Value of printing shipments dropped in 1/2025 from $7.34 billion in 12/24 to $7.31 billion Second best start to the year since the pandemic hit in the U.S.
The Microsoft offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) Team published a warning about a “Critical Vulnerability” affecting some Canon print drivers Severity score 9.4 out of 10 Could allow hacker to execute arbitrary code
