Samba released fixes for its networking software to address two critical vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to change admin password or launch DoS attacks. Two critical patches for the free ...

Programmers release a major update to the software that lets Linux computers mimic Windows machines, encroaching further onto Microsoft's turf. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The open-source development team releases an update to its Samba software for connecting Windows desktop PCs with Linux or Unix servers. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

The administrators behind the open-source Samba software platform have issued an emergency patch for a security hole that potentially could allow hackers to upload malicious files to vulnerable ...

Samba is a software package for UNIX systems that provides file and printer sharing services via the SMB and CIFS protocols. Samba allows Linux, Mac, FreeBSD users to set up shared folders and access ...

Programmers have released a major update to Samba, software that lets Linux computers mimic Windows machines, encroaching further onto Microsoft's turf. Samba lets a computer share files or manage ...

A couple of bugs in some versions of Samba software can help an attacker crash key processes on the network in charge of providing directory, application, and other services. The two vulnerabilities ...

Andrew Tridgell, creator of the Samba server software used by free and open source software developers alike, made an important contribution to the European Commission’s defense of its 2004 Microsoft ...

A second test version of the next generation of the open source file and print sharing software Samba has been released to the public, with numerous bugfixes and feature improvements included. The ...

Users of the open-source Samba software are being urged to patch their code following the discovery of a critical bug in the file-and-print software. The bug is one of three vulnerabilities that were ...