Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 gets better protection against SMB brute-force attacks

Microsoft announced that the Windows 11 SMB server is now better protected against brute-force attacks with the release of the Insider Preview Build 25206 to the Dev Channel. Redmond has enabled the ...
Hosted on MSN

Microsoft blocked some SMB shares on Windows, but here's how you can fix it

Starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, Microsoft made some big changes to how SMB shares work on Windows machines. To provide enhanced security, these shares now require SMB signing and for most ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 to let admins mandate SMB encryption for outbound connections

Windows 11 will let admins mandate SMB client encryption for all outbound connections, starting with today's Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25982 rolling out to Insiders in the Canary Channel. SMB ...
Redmond Magazine

Scale the Datacenter with Windows Server SMB Direct

RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...
Neowin

Microsoft makes SMB signing mandatory with Windows 11 Canary build 25381Microsoft makes SMB signing mandatory with Windows 11 Canary build 25381Microsoft makes SMB signing ...

Microsoft has released the latest Windows 11 build for Insiders on the Canary channel today. The new build 25381 brings a major change in SMB (Server Message Block) signing. Previously SMB singing was ...
Threat Post

Windows SMB Zero Day to Be Disclosed During DEF CON

Microsoft has said it will not patch a two-decade-old Windows SMB vulnerability, called SMBloris because it behaves comparably to the Slowloris attacks. The flaw will be disclosed and demonstrated ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Offers More Advice on Disabling Windows SMB 1

Microsoft's position on Server Message Block version 1 (SMB 1) in Windows systems is that organizations should just get rid of it. Essentially, the 30-year-old SMB 1 protocol permits man-in-the-middle ...
Neowin

Windows Server vNext build 25997 for Insiders adds SMB over QUIC in more editions0 0

Microsoft has released the latest Windows Server build for people in the Windows Server Insider Program. It has the build number of 25997 and, among many changes, adds SMB over QUIC to the Datacenter ...
PC World

Microsoft will likely fix Windows SMB denial-of-service flaw on Patch Tuesday

Microsoft will likely wait until February 14 to fix a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the SMB network file sharing protocol that can be exploited to crash Windows computers. The vulnerability was ...
Dark Reading

Windows SMB Zero-Day Exploit On The Loose

US-CERT and other organizations Friday warned of a zero-day memory corruption bug in several versions of Microsoft Windows that could allow a remote attacker to cause a vulnerable system to crash and ...
TechRepublic

SMB over QUIC in Windows Server: What you need to know

SMB over QUIC in Windows Server: What you need to know Your email has been sent Change is afoot: The internet is moving away from the venerable TCP protocol that’s been its foundation since the very ...