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Microsoft acknowledges yet another print spooler vulnerability

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The Print Spooler security nightmare isn’t over for Microsoft — the company has had to issue one patch after another to fix things, and that includes this…
A hot potato: After repeatedly trying to fix a set of vulnerabilities also known as « PrintNightmare, » Microsoft has yet to provide a permanent solution that doesn’t involve stopping and disabling the Print Spooler service in Windows. The company now acknowledged yet another bug that was initially discovered eight months ago, and ransomware groups are starting to take advantage of the chaos. The Print Spooler security nightmare isn’t over for Microsoft — the company has had to issue one patch after another to fix things, and that includes this month’s Patch Tuesday update. In a new security advisory, the company acknowledged the existence of yet another vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service.

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