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 ...

The company, which said earlier this week that it would also license its Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, will license the SMB file-sharing protocol later this summer, Microsoft spokesman ...

One of the ways in which Server 2008’s new version of the Server Message Block protocol improves performance over the original version of SMB is through something called “opportunistic locking,” or ...

The Cato CTRL SASE Threat Report reveals the trusted traffic networks must stop, as many enterprises still rely on the use of insecure protocols such as HTTP, Telnet and early versions of SMB.

A patch addressing an NTLM reflection vulnerability in the SMB protocol seems to have skipped Patch Tuesday for the last seven years. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing ...

Details about a new "wormable" vulnerability in the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) protocol have accidentally leaked online today during the preamble to Microsoft's regular Patch Tuesday update ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network intelligence, today released findings from the ExtraHop Benchmarking Cyber Risk and Readiness report showing that a significant ...

US cybersecurity agency CISA warns of active exploitation of a vulnerability in the Windows SMB protocol. Attackers can use it to gain SYSTEM-level privileges. The United States’ Cybersecurity and ...

For sharing large files at home, I look no further than using the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol on my machines. I was okay with transferring GBs worth of several ISOs of operating systems, ...