How boobytrapped printers have been able to infect Windows PCs for over 20 years

Printers have long been the forgotten security weak points of most corporate networks, but this article specifically addresses a vulnerability that has been lurking in the print spool process for many years.  It has been recently addressed with a patch from Microsoft, but for those people still running Windows XP or other unsupported OS’s, the vulnerability remains quite real.

http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/boobytrapped-printers-windows-malware/

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