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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a notification regarding the critical PrintNightmare zero-day vulnerability and advises admins to disable the Windows Print Spooler service on servers not used for printing. "CISA encourages administrators to disable the Windows Print spooler service in Domain Controllers and systems that do not print," the US federal agency said.
The printer fixing roller coaster continues as Microsoft is once again rolling out the KB5001649 out-of-band update to users via Windows Update. After installing the March 2021 Patch Tuesday updates, users began reporting that Windows 10 would crash when printing or print jobs would be missing graphics elements, have blank pages, or other issues.
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5001649 emergency update to fix printing issues plaguing users since the March 2021 Patch Tuesday updates. Many users have reported that Windows 10 would crash when printing with an "APC INDEX MISMATCH for win32kfull.sys" error or printed pages would have missing graphics, black bars, or blank pages.
Microsoft says that customers might experience additional printing issues besides blue screen crashes after installing Windows 10 updates released earlier this month. According to Microsoft, these recent Windows 10 updates will cause issues when printing from some apps or when printing to some printers, including missing or solid color graphics, misalignment/formatting issues, or printing blank pages/labels.
Update: Microsoft now warns of additional issues when printing after installing the March updates. Microsoft has released out-of-band non-security updates to fix a know Windows 10 issue causing blue screens when printing to network printers after installing the March 2021 cumulative updates.
Update: Microsoft has released out-of-band non-security updates to address the Windows 10 printing crash issue. Microsoft has provided a temporary fix for the Windows 10 blue screen crashes plaguing customers when printing after installing the March 2021 cumulative updates.
Update: Microsoft has released out-of-band non-security updates to address the Windows 10 printing crash issue. The Windows 10 KB5000802 and KB5000808 cumulative updates released yesterday are causing Blue Screen of Death crashes when printing to network printers.
Mozilla has slowed the rollout of Firefox 82 just two days after its release due to printing bugs and crashes in the new version. Mozilla Firefox 82 was released on October 20th, with only a few improvements in performance and its Picture-in-Picture feature.
Mozilla has slowed the rollout of Firefox 82 just two days after its release due to printing bugs and crashes in the new version. Mozilla Firefox 82 was released on October 20th, with only a few improvements in performance and its Picture-in-Picture feature.
Cybercriminals claim they have hacked the systems of U.S. printing giant Xerox and they are threatening to leak files stolen from the company unless they get paid. The threat actor operating the ransomware known as Maze has published several screenshots on its website in an effort to demonstrate that it has gained access to Xerox systems.