Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:56:34 +0000
On this podcast, Dave and Jeff discuss Windows 7’s end of life, a bug in the Windows CryptoAPI revealed by the NSA, Las Vegas hit with a cyberattack, and more.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:20:00 -0800
No, Windows 7 isn’t dead.
No, you don’t need to buy a Win10 computer.
No, you don’t need to upgrade.
No, you don’t need to install the latest Win7 patches right away.
No, Microsoft isn’t withdrawing its unofficial nod-and-a-wink free upgrade from Win7 to Win10. At least, not right away.
No, the old Win7 patches aren’t disappearing.
No, your Internet Service Provider won’t kick you off your network for using Win7.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 07:26:00 -0800
Get ready for your local news station’s weather reporter to start lecturing on the importance of installing Windows patches.
Yesterday we were treated to a remarkable Patch Tuesday. “Remarkable” specifically in the sense that the U.S. National Security Agency was moved to put out a press release (PDF):
NSA recommends installing all January 2020 Patch Tuesday patches as soon as possible to effectively mitigate the vulnerability on all Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019 systems.
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:36:00 -0800
Microsoft today figuratively told Window 7 – which ended support with a final security update – not to let the door hit it on the way out.
“Ten-year-old tech just can’t keep up,” Jared Spataro, an executive on the Microsoft 365 team, wrote in a post to a company blog. “As we end support for Windows 7, I encourage you to transition to these newer options right away.”
Not surprisingly, Spataro named those newer options as Windows 10 to replace Windows 7, and Office 365 to fill in for the retiring-in-October Office 2010. Combined, they make up the bulk of Microsoft 365, the business subscription plan Microsoft wants all customers to adopt.
Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:15:18 +0000
This month’s big security news from Microsoft is the end of support for Windows 7, and a patch of a cryptographic library<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/wiyw9sHJyLE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 05:48:00 -0800
Over the past few years we’ve seen a few security holes that have drawn Chicken Little warnings and vast amounts of unthinking press reports. When you turn on a local news program and hear from the hometown weather reporter that you really need to get Windows patched, a bit of skepticism might be in order.
Today’s Patch Tuesday appears to be headed down the same well-worn chute.
Brian Krebs, the security guru with impeccable credentials, fired an opening salvo in his blog post yesterday:
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 04:16:00 -0800
Today Microsoft issues its final free security update for Windows 7, putting an end to that operating system’s decade.
To remember that service – a retirement party but without the cloyingly-sweet cake and cheap gold watch – Computerworld selected seven highlights of Windows 7. While the seven do not pretend to trace Windows 7’s history, they illustrate the influence and impact of the OS.
Here’s to Windows 7. Raise a glass, for cryin’ out loud.
The numbers say it all.
Windows Vista, the 2006 replacement for Windows XP, topped out at 20% of all Windows versions in October 2009. Even though the OS it followed was long in the tooth – XP was nearly twice the age of a typical version when it was supplanted – Vista struggled to put a dent in its forerunner’s share.
Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800
Listen, I get it. Windows 7 has worked really well. After the Vista fiasco, you were so happy to get a decent version of Windows. You dodged the Windows 8.x sinkhole, and, boy, were you glad! Then, you thought about Windows 10, but 7 just did the job so you stuck with it, and then you felt vindicated because of Windows 10’s dodgy upgrades and patches. Now, today, Jan. 14, 2020, Windows 7 has reached its end of life, and either you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 or you’re working on another Windows 7 alternative like Chrome OS, macOS or Linux, right?