Samba critical flaws: Patch now but older open instances have far worse issues

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Video: Firm finds kill switch after massive memcached DDoS attacks.Samba has released new versions of its Windows-Linux compatible file- and printer-sharing software to address a password bug and a denial-of-service vulnerability."Samba vendors and administrators running affected versions are advised to upgrade or apply the patch as soon as possible," it said in the advisory for CVE-2018-1057 .Researchers find an authentication protocol bug that affects Windows, Linux and Apple.If youre having trouble figuring out how to connect Windows 10 to your data center Samba shares, Jack Wallen eases your concern with the simple steps to make this work.

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