The company, which said earlier this week that it would also license its Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, will license the SMB file-sharing protocol later this summer, Microsoft spokesman ...

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 this week started publishing a list of devices and software products that use Server Message Block 1 (SMB 1). The insecure and long-deprecrated SMB 1 protocol made headlines last month in ...

For sharing large files at home, I look no further than using the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol on my machines. I was okay with transferring GBs worth of several ISOs of operating systems, ...

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) published a vulnerability warning this week about a zero-day security exploit involving the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol in Windows systems.

SMB was originally developed for Windows OS but a later software implementation called Samba made it possible for SMB to be used on Mac OSs or UNIX. Server message blocks run on top of TCP/IP, via ...