UK's Metropolitan Police Still Using 10,000 Windows XP Computers

itman · Jun 29, 2017

Really glad I don't reside in the UK

Information obtained by Steve O'Connell, a member of the London Assembly and a Conservative Party spokesperson for policing and crime, shows that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS, or the Met) was still using 18,293 XP machines on their network at the time of providing the information. Since XP is no longer supported by Microsoft, it is left vulnerable to any new exploits such as EternalBlue and DoublePulsar -- and it appears that only the tendency for WannaCry to crash XP rather than infect it prevented the worldwide outbreak from being far worse than it was.
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http://www.securityweek.com/uks-metropolitan-police-still-using-10000-windows-xp-computers

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