Lifehacker: Seriously, Update Your Old Windows 7 PCs and Windows Servers Right Now
Lifehacker: Seriously, Update Your Old Windows 7 PCs and Windows Servers Right Now. “We’ve made several posts over the past year about “BlueKeep,” a serious exploit present in Windows 7’s remote desktop protocol (RDP) that could allow a hacker to take control of someone’s PC. Hell, we even covered recent news about the first successful use of BlueKeep attacks earlier this week, wherein hackers remotely installed cryptocurrency-mining software on vulnerable systems via RDP. And just yesterday, Microsoft’s internal security team posted a new warning saying they expect BlueKeep attacks to not only continue, but increase in sophistication (and severity) as time goes on.”