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       Microsoft To Drop SMBv1 In Its Upcoming Windows Update
       By: magbytes120 Date: June 23, 2017, 12:59 am
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       The 30-year-old distributed IPC protocol is being dropped by
       Windows for users’ online security.
       SMBv1, the earliest version of Server Message Block protocol
       used for resource sharing and Inter Process communication among
       nodes on a network will be deprecated in the forthcoming Windows
       update.
       Almost everyone who had even a little familiarity with computers
       and the Internet heard about Wanacry. The ransomware which
       wreaked havoc last month and was the reason for a spike in cyber
       security awareness. Although this “awareness” among common
       people is expected to dump soon, tech companies are not going to
       get away with it in a similar way.
       Wanna cry used NSA’s exploit leaked by Shadow Brokers in a data
       dump in April. This exploit was based on a vulnerability present
       in SMBv1. Although Microsoft patched the same in an update
       released in March most of the users remained unaware of it.
       After the havoc and the “kill switch” solution, it was advised
       that the best way is to disable SMB on user systems if they do
       not need it. Microsoft is doing the work on the users’ behalf by
       deprecating the old SMBv1 in its next update of Windows.
       Ned Pyle, the principal program manager for Microsoft’s Windows
       Server High Availability and Storage division, has also
       published a blog post this month, enlisting products from other
       vendors that are still using SMBv1 and begged them to stop using
       it now.
       Pyle also hinted that the company has been planning to remove
       SMBv1 from Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Version 1709), which
       is expected to release in September/October 2017.
       “SMB1 is being removed (fully or partially, depending on SKU) by
       default in the RS3 release of Windows and Windows Server. This
       is coming, folks,” Pyle wrote.
       In the meantime, it is advised to disable SMBv1 and use the
       newer SMBv2 and SMBv3 instead. Microsoft has published a
       document, which describes registry settings, PowerShell commands
       as well as group policy settings to disable SMBv1 in your
       Windows environment manually.
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