Although organizations have until 2034 to remove the name server technology, that’s not long for OT platforms that still depend on it. Microsoft has given system administrators until 2034 to stop ...

Support for Windows 10 is officially coming to an end next month with one final update on October 14th, 2025. Yesterday, Microsoft released a preview version of that cumulative update, which is ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the September 2025 Windows security updates are causing connection issues to Server Message Block (SMB) v1 shares. The list of platforms affected by this known issue is ...

NetBIOS, short for Network Basic Input/Output System, is a Windows API used when DNS is not available. It runs over TCP/IP as a fallback method and is not enabled by default. However, Microsoft ...

The past 12 months saw flash storage nudge into areas from which it had hitherto been absent. In particular, this was because of the availability of denser – and therefore cheaper per-gigabyte (GB) – ...

Windows 11 will no longer add SMB1 Windows Defender Firewall rules when creating new SMB shares starting with today's Canary Channel Insider Preview Build 25992 build. Before this change and since ...

Abstract: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a cyberattack in which the attacker makes a system or network resources unavailable to the intended audience temporarily or permanently. NetBIOS DDoS ...

NetBIOS is a protocol that was developed by IBM and Sytek back in the late 1980s to facilitate communication between computers within a local area network (LAN). It was mainly designed to enable ...