Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday arrived with a broad set of fixes and a matching set of detection updates from Cisco Talos — including a new Snort ruleset — aimed at the most likely-to-be-exploited flaws this month. The update package contains dozens of CVEs spanning Windows core components...
Microsoft’s advisory identifies CVE-2025-54101 as a use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows SMBv3 Client that can be triggered over a network and may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected process. This is a serious client‑side remote code execution (RCE)...
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, vulnerabilities can pose serious threats not just to individuals but also to entire organizations. One such recent discovery is CVE-2024-43447, which highlights a remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Windows SMBv3 server. Here's a...
I need just some clarifications:
Is SMB (protocol) the only way to access remote shared folders (in small networks without Active Directory)?
So whenever I want to list and use remote shared folders then SMB (either v1 or v2 or v3) must be enabled (on both computers).
Correct?