Microsoft fixes critical bug that could exploit personal data of Windows users
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Microsoft has now rolled out an emergency Windows patch to address the vulnerability that was found in the Windows Print Spooler service.
A few days, Microsoft issued a warning about a critical bug that install exploit the data of Windows users. The company has now rolled out an emergency Windows patch to address the vulnerability that was found in the Windows Print Spooler service. The Windows Print Spooler service which was called ‘PrintNightmare’ was believed to be extremely harmful in nature. The researchers had revealed that the bug ‘PrintNighmare can be exploited by hackers to gain control of a user’ system. Microsoft had rated the bug as critical as the bug is capable of executing code on affected machines. Announcing a fix, Microsoft urged users to install the updates immediately. “Microsoft has completed the investigation and has released security updates to address this vulnerability. We recommend that you install these updates immediately. Note that the security updates released on and after July 6, 2021 contain protections for CVE-2021-1675 and the additional remote code execution exploit in the Windows Print Spooler service known as “PrintNightmare”, documented in CVE-2021-34527.”More Related News