There are a lot of practical uses for a personal server, both at home and for a business. You can use them to network local ...

Starting with this build (Build 25992), we are introducing the following Server Message Block (SMB) protocol changes. SMB firewall rule changes: Creating SMB shares changes a longtime Windows ...

Says Microsoft, when you use SMB1, you lose key protections offered by later SMB protocol versions like: Pre-authentication Integrity (SMB 3.1.1+) – Protects against security downgrade attacks.

Server Message Block or SMB is a protocol used for file sharing. It provides the Read and Write operations on network devices. This is widely used while a user is accessing a Linux-based Server.

While not quite a patch, Microsoft updated its security advisory by telling users to cut support for the SMBv2 protocol, accompanied by a link to the Microsoft "Fix It" package disabling the SMBv2 ...

company's alert, an exploit for the zero-day bug in Windows 2000's SMB (Server Message Block) protocol has been created by Immunity Security, the makers of the CANVAS exploit-creation platform.

The vulnerability in question, CVE-2024-43451 (CVSS score: 6.5), refers to an NTLM hash disclosure spoofing vulnerability that could be exploited to steal a user's NTLMv2 hash. It was patched by ...

Suspected Russian hackers were caught exploiting a recently patched Windows vulnerability as a zero-day in ongoing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities.