Stay informed on discontinued infosec products and protocols. Keep ahead of end-of-life security tools to ensure your data remains protected.
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Discontinued products or services in information security are those no longer maintained or updated by their creators. This includes software, hardware, or protocols that have reached their end of life and no longer receive security patches or technical support. Such discontinuation means vulnerabilities discovered after support ends remain unaddressed, leaving these products increasingly susceptible to exploitation.
Using discontinued security tools can expose organizations to risks like unpatched vulnerabilities, which attackers may exploit to gain unauthorized access or disrupt operations. Security teams should track product lifecycle statuses and plan timely migrations to supported alternatives to reduce attack surfaces. Continuing to operate discontinued components complicates vulnerability management and can undermine overall defense strategies by introducing unmanaged risks into the environment.
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CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018 Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a "better time" when this was all fields and kids respected their elders - and it looks like cyber criminals are no exception.…
We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC General Motors on Thursday said that it has reached a settlement with the FTC "to address privacy concerns about our now-discontinued Smart Driver program."…
Flaws in the open-source tool exploited – and India's power grid was a target Microsoft is warning that systems using the long-discontinued Boa web server could be at risk of attacks after a series of intrusion attempts of power grid operations in India likely included exploiting security flaws in the technology.…