Dell said last week that in addition to selling PCs based on Ubuntu Linux, it will also offer systems designed for the SMB market -- outside the US. After some confusion over Dell's Linux strategy, ...

Many small businesses think the servers they use all run Windows operating systems, but many file server appliances are Linux-based systems using Samba for interoperability with their Windows or Mac ...

A vulnerability in Samba, the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix, can be exploited remotely to gain access to Linux machines that have port 445 exposed. Some are ...

HELSINKI, Jan. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fusion File Share by Tuxera, which maximizes the speed and efficiency of data access, offers a Scale-Out feature that is unique among SMB implementations ...

The Small Business Server (SBS) upgrade recently went to manufacturing and will officially be launched at Microsoft's annual partner summit in July but general availability isn't expected until later ...

Attackers are free-riding Linux servers with an unpatched Samba bug to mine for the monero cryptocurrency. Now would be a good time install a patch released by open-source project Samba on May 25.

There are 2,306,820 devices connected to the Internet at the moment that feature open ports for SMB services, the same protocol that was used to infect hundreds of thousands of computers with the ...

Startup Linux vendor Collax launched its flagship product in the United States at LinuxWorld Tuesday, aiming the turnkey business software package at small and medium-size business (SMB) customers ...

Boise, Idaho-based EmergeCore Networks is a classic example. What's interesting is that a little more than a year ago, EmergeCore was in dire straits--its enterprise Linux solution simply wasn't ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover malware, vulnerabilities, data breaches and security research. Last month, a group of attackers exploited a vulnerability ...