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Why End of Life for Applications Is the Beginning of Life for Hackers

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Feed Name: Dark Reading

Date Published: 2024-08-22

Date Updated: 2026-05-05

Author: Matt Middleton-Leal

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The article warns that end-of-life and end-of-support software pose ongoing security risks — citing examples like Windows XP and Log4j — and recommends proactive asset inventorying, one-year countdown tracking, early migration planning (including cloud refactoring), risk communication to business owners and executives, and compensating controls such as network segmentation when replacement is impractical.

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