A vulnerability in Samba, the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix, can be exploited remotely to gain access to Linux machines that have port 445 exposed. Some are ...

Conventional wisdom seems to be that SMB, even in its over TCP variant over port 445, is only to be used over the intranet and access should be cut at the perimeter firewall. People needing access ...

Attackers are free-riding Linux servers with an unpatched Samba bug to mine for the monero cryptocurrency. Now would be a good time install a patch released by open-source project Samba on May 25.

There are 2,306,820 devices connected to the Internet at the moment that feature open ports for SMB services, the same protocol that was used to infect hundreds of thousands of computers with the ...