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Microsoft issues urgent security warning: Update your PC immediately. No. Really. Hard to believe, but it's true.

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Microsoft issues urgent security warning: Update your PC immediately
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The researchers tweeted in late May that they had found vulnerabilities in Print Spooler, which allows multiple users to access a printer.

Microsoft (MSFT) warned that hackers that exploit the vulnerability could install programs, view and delete data or even create new user accounts with full user rights. That gives hackers enough command and control of your PC to do some serious damage.

Windows 10 is not the only version affected -- Windows 7, which Microsoft has ended support for last year, is also subject to the vulnerability.
Despite announcing that it would no longer issue updates for Windows 7, Microsoft issued a patch for its 12-year old operating system, underscoring the severity of the PrintNightmare flaw. Updates for Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, version 1607, and Windows Server 2012 will are "expected soon," it said.

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Thursday, July 8, 2021 12:08 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thanks for the tip. As soon as I log out here I'll make sure I'm updated. I know my computer reset at some point overnight, so I'm probably good.

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