Microsoft to Extend Windows Defender ATP Support to Windows 7 and 8.1

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), a suite of security services that helps Windows 10 systems block emerging and sophisticated attacks, is coming this summer to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Windows Defender ATP combines behavioral analytics, machine learning and threat intelligence collected by Microsoft's cloud services slate and Windows systems in the wild. The result is a system that can detect zero-day attacks and prevent data breaches, one of the most pressing problems faced by businesses and consumers today. In November 2017, Uber revealed that it was hit with a massive data breach in late 2016 affecting the personally identifiable information of 56 million of the app's users and 600,000 drivers. The ride-hailing company reportedly paid hackers $100,000 to delete the stolen information