The beginning of the year will probably be associated with the threat of coronavirus. This topic has dominated the media reports in recent weeks. It is also an excellent example of the fact that new threats may always appear in business, which have not been included in the risk analysis so far.

However, there is just as much going on in the world of cyber threats. On January 14, the end of support for the operating systems from the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 family, which was announced for a long time by Microsoft, took place. This means that for one of the most popular systems that are still used, unfortunately, also on company computers, security patches related to new discoveries will no longer be delivered. vulnerabilities.
The proof that this problem cannot be underestimated is the vulnerability found in the Remote Desktop Gateway service at the beginning of the year. Continue ...

Moving data from an older file server to the new Windows Server 2008 or 2012 may result in the older 16-bit applications running from a network share failing to obey us. Although the system on which we are trying to run the application from a network share does not change, a message may appear informing that the application or one of its components has not been found:

Can't run 16-bit Windows program
Cannot find file X: \ directory_name \ file_name.exe (or one of this components)

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