Key to Winning the Network Security Contest

Winning the SMBRelay Race Windows 2000 Server Message Block (SMB), Microsoft's Eric Schultze has clarified the fixes necessary to guard against it. To recap: SMB is a NetBIOS protocol widely used in Windows networking to share files, printers, and other services. A new hacker tool, SMBRelay, exploits several legacy security options embedded in the NetBIOS/SMB protocols that would allow an attacker to interpose between the client and host, and "hijack" a secure session. (more...)