That's because, as Jeremy Allison, a Google storage and open-source engineer and a senior Samba developer, explained, "This is a protocol-level vulnerability." Specifically, "the Security Account ...

Experts say administrators should apply an important security patch (MS16-047: Security update for SAM and LSAD remote protocols) released by Microsoft ASAP to repair a vulnerability that could let an ...

The much anticipated Badlock vulnerability wasn’t in the SMB protocol after all, but in SAM and LSAD and exposed Windows machines to privilege escalation. Weeks of anxiety and concern over the Badlock ...

Cisco is prepping fixes for two of its products affected by last week’s Samba vulnerability. Netgear has also pushed out a fix for NAS devices that were affected. Device manufacturers are combing ...

Who is afraid of the big bad vulnerability? All the hype on Badlock is a distraction from the real flaws that need patching right away System administrators who’d spent the past three weeks on high ...

Microsoft and the Samba project fixed a vulnerability in their implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol after the flaw was initially announced three weeks ago under the name Badlock. The vulnerability, ...

Microsoft and the Samba project fixed a vulnerability in their implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol after the flaw was initially announced three weeks ago under the name Badlock. The vulnerability, ...

Systems administrators should get ready to fix a critical vulnerability on April 12 that affects the Windows and Samba implementations of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The vulnerability was ...

Details of a new, high-impact vulnerability known as BadLock have been revealed, affecting Samba, the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. As the researchers who ...

Systems administrators should get ready to fix a critical vulnerability on April 12 that affects the Windows and Samba implementations of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The vulnerability was ...