{"id":8054,"date":"2021-07-08T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:49:00","slug":"microsoft-releases-emergency-patch-for-printnightmare-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-releases-emergency-patch-for-printnightmare-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Releases Emergency Patch For PrintNightmare Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for the vulnerability known as PrintNightmare that allows attackers to take control of a PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a critical bug in the Windows printer with exploit code in the public domain before Microsoft had the chance to issue a patch for it.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Administrators were advised to disable the Print Spooler service until a patch was available.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The remote code execution vulnerability occurs when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly performs privileged file operations, according to Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bug seems to be a serious problem at Microsoft, which has taken the strange step of releasing patches for Windows 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows 7 accounts for a smaller share of all Windows PCs sold in stores, but the numbers remained significant enough for Google to maintain Chrome support for Windows 7 until this month.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/install-immediately-microsoft-delivers-emergency-patch-for-printnightmare-security-bug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for the vulnerability known as PrintNightmare that allows attackers to take control of a PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8081,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}