Ammon – There is a lot of talk in our current era about cyberpiracy and the importance of information security, not only at the level of countries and bodies, but also at the level of individuals. It is necessary to perform periodic updates to computer systems in order to protect them from any risks when connected to the Internet.
A recent study revealed that there are more than 1.8 million computers in Germany running old Windows systems that have not been updated for years. These computers are used to connect to the Internet even though they do not have any protection against any security threats on the Internet.
The study conducted by the information technology security company ESET and published today, Sunday, in the German capital, Berlin, stated that most of the unsecured systems, numbering about 1.5 million devices, are still running the Windows 7 operating system, which is no longer updated and vulnerabilities have been filled. I wished for him about four years ago.
According to the company, there are still some devices running Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or even the XP operating system, the last update of which was issued by Microsoft 15 years ago.
“It is disappointing to see that, despite many years of media campaigns, millions of German users are still using old Windows operating systems,” said Torsten Urbasinki, an IT security expert at the company, warning that these users are displaying their devices in… Your home or business is exposed to serious risks when using the Internet with these devices.
Urbanski explained that cybercriminals can easily attack such unsecured devices, and warned that the presence of any security vulnerability in computer applications that use these versions of Windows systems is sufficient to hack the device and seize all of its owner’s data.
d b a
