With end of life for Windows 7, US insurance company warns corporations of increased risk of cyberthreats

Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 reached the end of their updateable life in mid-January. — TNS

The Travelers Companies, Inc is publicising the prospect of computer breaches and other attacks against companies that failed to upgrade or replace Microsoft's Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 when the operating systems reached their end of life Jan 14.

Ken Morrison, director of cyber risk control at the New York- and Hartford, Connecticut-based property and casualty insurer, said the operating systems "hit the end of the support road".