Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice

Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• prof@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  EOL means no more security updates, which means attack vectors don’t get patched.

  If you keep using a Windows installation (or any OS for that matter) that isn’t patched regularly you are very likely to be victim to some malicious actor eventually. It’s not manual hacking anymore, it’s bots scraping the whole internet exploiting known vulnerabilities completely automated.

  The risk is much lower if you’re in a home network with NAT, where your PCs IP is not publicly reachable, but if you communicate with any webservices you’re still vulnerable.

  As example. If you nowadays put a Windows XP machine live on the internet with a public IP, it will be compromised within minutes.

  So yeah. Good call switching to Mint, but please don’t use unpatched Windows.

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  • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nat is not a security feature.

    Just use ipv6

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    • prof@infosec.pub ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      If you’re behind a conventional router they still do NAT afaik.

      Per default your IPv6 address should be an internal one if it’s enabled.

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      • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        My third world country gives us normal IPv6 addresses that can be accessed from the web if you configure the router xd

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I saw a YT video about XP being compromised. It was literally about 2-3 minutes, and it had been attacked.

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    • prof@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, we managed to recreate that in a lab. Those old OS’s are super vulnerable.

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  • hzl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is what 0patch is for!

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• HakunaHafada@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mint was my first Linux OS, and it’s been really nice.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not my first, but the one I landed on after years. It’s just so good.

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