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Improvement to Printer OS Fingerprinting
Summary Scanned printers will now have an OS artefact surfaced in their scan host metadata if the target has been identified as a printer when the “Scan Network Printers” policy option is disabled. ...
Very timely - I just put in a case for a couple of printers that we see getting scanned despite being identified in 11936 OS Identification as "HP JetDirect Printer". Only one shows plugin 11933 "Do not scan printers". Both have port 9100 open and are prone to dumping lots of junk pages when touched by Tenable, even with 'Scan Network Printers = OFF' in scan policy.
