Appalling Negligence: Decade-Old Windows XPe Holes Led to Home Depot Hack


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In the wake of a stunning data breach at America's largest home improvement retail chain, The Home Depot, Inc. (HD), a stunning picture of negligence is slowly emerging.  Both Home Depot and Target Corp. (TGT) -- whose registers were compromised last December -- appear to have fallen victim to a decade-old exploit of Windows XPe. 

 

 

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Negligence, on Home depot and Target's part.  The article is geared towards businesses that don't protect consumers, not MS. Your quote makes it sound like something else entirely.

 

 

How many years have people been claiming later versions of Windows are more secure?  All the while the clowns making these decisions are holding their ears and going LALALALALA because they don't want to spend the money.

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HD does still use WinXP based POS terminals. This was all foretold when Microsoft said that XP was going to be EoL'd, yet no one listened.

XPe isn't EOL'ed yet.

 

There are still two years of support left, BUT XP was always an insecure POS (not pun intended).

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XPe isn't EOL'ed yet.

 

There are still two years of support left, BUT XP was always an insecure POS (not pun intended).

 

Strange never caught a virus on XP all the years I ran it. 2001 til 2007. I didn't even catch MSblast! :) I had a router back then!

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Strange never caught a virus on XP all the years I ran it. 2001 til 2007. I didn't even catch MSblast! :) I had a router back then!

Everyone thinks safe computing rides on the OS and few take responsibility for their own stupid mistakes.

 

Thats why there is a disparity between those who get infected all the time and those that never do.

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