Pwned by your printer! Microsoft patches critical printer spooler bug

The hole was reported to Microsoft by security researchers from Vectra Networks, and it’s one of those bugs about which you can’t help thinking, “Golly gosh, that should never have happened.” Fortunately, as far as we know, Vectra was the first company to figure this one out, and disclosed it responsibly to Microsoft, which has now issued a patch.

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