The solution to every printing problem according to the Helpdesk is to restart the print server on the print spooler. I don't pretend to know very much about print servers, but this seems to be a ...

Facepalm: Microsoft is once again advising its customers to disable Windows print spooler, after a new vulnerability that allows hackers to execute malicious code on machines has emerged. While a ...

Why queues jam: Print queues may freeze due to stalled jobs, spooler service errors, driver conflicts, or unstable connections, stopping all pending tasks. Immediate remedies: Removing blocked jobs, ...

When a team of hackers believed to be from the US and Israel deployed the Stuxnet worm in 2010 to sabotage centrifuges at an Iranian uranium-enrichment facility in Natanz, one critical vulnerability ...

Security researchers last week described ransomware perpetrators incorporating Windows "PrintNightmare" exploits in their attacks. PrintNightmare is the name for "Critical"-rated Windows print spooler ...

Microsoft has announced that a Russian hacker group has been exploiting an old Windows Print Spooler issue for as long as four years in order to "steal credentials in compromised networks." Earlier ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Windows 10 Print Spooler security is turning into a headache for the company and its customers. "A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service ...

Microsoft has issued an advisory for another zero-day Windows print spooler vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-36958 that allows local attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on a computer. This ...