Windows Users: Your Printer May Be Open to Hackers


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There are a lot of cyber security myths out there and we could argue about them 24/7, but at the end of the day, what really matters is that we do what we can to stay safe and not fall victim to malicious attacks. One common misconception is that security-related Windows Updates aren’t necessary, but there’s a newly-found printer vulnerability that disproves that. In short, this vulnerability can grant complete control over your network to hackers who exploit a weakness in any attached printer. What’s the weakness? The fact that printers don’t need permissions or credentials to connect to a…

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