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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system already disables by default SMB (Server Message Block) version 1, the 30-year-old file-sharing protocol.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Server Message Block protocol, better known as SMB, is one of the most popular ways to transfer files over a network. It has been built into Windows for over 20 years (and the open-source ...

A new security vulnerability involving the Server Message Block protocol, used for Windows file-sharing, can allow a remote attacker to take control of a vulnerable Vista, Server 2008 or Windows 7 ...