Banks and security agencies are running a vulnerable version of Windows

Aug17

by Sindy Cator on August 17, 2015 at 2:46 pm

Surprise: companies don’t like updating their computers. A study by internet services company Netcraft shows that something around 609,000 active servers still run on Windows Server 2003. We’ll do the math for you: that’s a 12 year old operating system still powering web hosts for banks and security vendors. An operating system that – as of last month – Microsoft will no longer support. That means no patches or security updates whatsoever: Those servers help run an estimated 175 million websites; Netcraft says they accounted for over a fifth of all the pages they surveyed. About 55% of the machines…