The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a private industry notification (PIN) on Monday to partners in the US private sector about the dangers of continuing to use Windows 7 after the operating system reached its official end-of-life (EOL) earlier this year. From a report: “The FBI has observed cyber criminals targeting computer network infrastructure after an operating system achieves end of life status,” the agency said. “Continuing to use Windows 7 within an enterprise may provide cyber criminals access in to computer systems. As time passes, Windows 7 becomes more vulnerable to exploitation due to lack of security updates and new vulnerabilities discovered. “With fewer customers able to maintain a patched Windows 7 system after its end of life, cyber criminals will continue to view Windows 7 as a soft target,” the FBI warned. The Bureau is now asking companies to look into upgrading their workstations to newer versions of the Windows operating system.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot – FBI Issues Warning Over Windows 7 End-of-Life