Initial analysis Tuesday by security firms such as nCircle described the SMB bug in dire terms, saying that it could lead to a worm that would rival 2003's MSBlast and its global disruption. That was ...

I know we had previous SMB threads, but Search is on the fritz again...<BR><BR>The setup:<BR>A Panther machine and Win2K-SP3 PC connected via Ethernet switch, which is connected to an ADSL/router.

An attack using the SMB file sharing protocol that has been believed to work only within local area networks for over a decade can also be executed over the Internet, two researchers showed at the ...