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A JAPANESE WATCHDOG has slammed the operators of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after an audit revealed that most of its PCs run on Microsoft's Windows XP.
The plant's owner might have been expected to ensure that systems are up to date and as secure as possible after the meltdown of three of the plant's six nuclear reactors in March 2011. But apparently not.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has had its wrists slapped by the Board of Audit of Japan, an organisation that oversees the finances of Japan's government and its agencies, after it discovered that about 48,000 of Tepco's PCs were running XP. This is an outdated version of Windows that no longer receives security updates or technical support from Microsoft.
A report in The Japan Times said that Tepco figured it could save some dosh by delaying an upgrade from XP while it faces a multi-billion dollar clean-up and compensation bill from the 2011 crisis.
"The company decided, on its own initiative, to move up the deadline to update the software due to system security concerns," a Tepco spokesman said.
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The plant's owner might have been expected to ensure that systems are up to date and as secure as possible after the meltdown of three of the plant's six nuclear reactors in March 2011. But apparently not.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has had its wrists slapped by the Board of Audit of Japan, an organisation that oversees the finances of Japan's government and its agencies, after it discovered that about 48,000 of Tepco's PCs were running XP. This is an outdated version of Windows that no longer receives security updates or technical support from Microsoft.
A report in The Japan Times said that Tepco figured it could save some dosh by delaying an upgrade from XP while it faces a multi-billion dollar clean-up and compensation bill from the 2011 crisis.
"The company decided, on its own initiative, to move up the deadline to update the software due to system security concerns," a Tepco spokesman said.
48,000 PCs at Fukushima plant operator TEPCO still run Windows XP
TEPCO is in hot water over the 2011 Fukushima meltdown, and now an audit has uncovered the company still relies heavily on Windows XP over a year after update support ended.
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