From this January 10, 2023 there will no longer be updates in the version of Windows 7.
Computer security is an increasingly important issue. matters of cyber attacks they can present a clear threat to large companies. Thus Microsoft constantly working on finding tools to protect them.
For it, Microsoft announced in 2019 that updates free security for Windows 7 They will no longer be available from January 2020. However, at the same time it launched a program called ‘Extended Security Update (ESU)’ that allowed extending the probability of have paid updates for Professional and Enterprise versions up to January of 2023as shared by the portal El Espectador.
Once the term is over, Microsoft said that effectively there will no longer be “security patches to correct critical or important vulnerabilities for the Professional and Enterprise versions of Windows 7“, pointed out the portal welivesecurity.com
According to the newspaper publication, the Informatic security should not be taken at light. Cybercriminal attacks on large companies are more frequent where they find holes or rather, “security breaches“that they take advantage of to enter the system of the company and cause damage.
And Windows 7 runs out of these updates, it would basically allow users to experts in cyber attacks sneak in through cracks to steal data or damage the system of any company that uses it.
The computer security offered by Microsoft makes it possible to identify the hollow o gaps caused by the attacks cybernetic and cover them to avoid any threat.
Which means that organizations that operate with Microsoft 365 in Windows 7 and have failed to adapt their infrastructure to newer versions, such as Windows 10 or 11, they are exposed to attacks that try to exploit new vulnerabilities and security flaws, welivesecurity.com said.
Therefore, as of this January 10, 2023, there will no longer be updates in this version of Windows.
The FBI warns of malicious actors
“Two years ago the FBI alerted companies still using Windows 7 to the risks they were exposing themselves to by using an end-of-life operating system. As we have seen, many flaws that were discovered in 2017, and even earlier, are still being used by cybercriminals. This means that malicious actors will continue to exploit these flaws as long as vulnerable systems continue to exist,” warned ESET, a software company specializing in cybersecurity.
Finally, those who intend to switch to a version newer as Windows 10experts suggest remembering that its “life cycle will end in October 2025 and following that it will not receive any further updates,” welivesecurity.com concluded.
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