Just days before its antitrust remedy trial begins in Washington, <B>Microsoft</B> plans to open up more protocols including its Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing protocol.

Microsoft released a single bulletin for this month's Patch Tuesday. The bulletin addresses three issues affecting Microsoft's Server Message Block Protocol.

A couple of weeks ago we threatened to discuss Samba, the open source freeware implementation of the Server Message Block protocol. Well, it was no idle threat.

Microsoft is appealing to organizations to stop using Server Message Block (SMB) version 1. The SMB protocol works with server and client operating systems, enabling actions such as file sharing ...

Last time I discussed the (relatively) new SMB 2 protocol supported in Vista, Windows 7, and Server 2008. This protocol update can make communications more efficient between Longhorn operating ...

Proof-of-concept code for a zero-day in the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol that affects several Windows versions has been published online today, sending sysadmins into a frenzy to protect ...

Redmond is investigating reports that a newly discovered flaw in Microsoft's implementation of the Server Message Block 2 (SMB2) protocol, an extension of the conventional server message block ...

Microsoft has released the latest Windows 11 build 25992 for Insiders in the Canary Channel. It includes a number of Server Message Block (SMB) protocol changes, a Snipping Tool update, and more.

As expected, it's a one-patch Tuesday, with a single item deemed "critical" in Microsoft's first security update for the year. The January update, described in Security Bulletin MS09-001, is said to ...

Although this month's two-patch security bundle is small, the patches repaired critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft's XML Core Services and Server Message Block Protocol, which affect several ...

One of the changes Apple has made in OS X Mavericks is the use of Server Message Block (SMB) version 2 as the preferred networking protocol for efficiency, security, and compatibility with other ...