Microsoft making file sharing more secure on Windows 11
Microsoft are making file sharing on Windows 11 more secure. The software giant are planning to finally disable the insecure SMB1 protocol - a dialect of the Server Message Block (SMB) process developed by IBM in the 1980s - by default on the operating system. Ned Pyle, principal programmanager in the Windsows Server engineering group, announced in a blog post: "Initially, we stopped installing the SMB1 server service in any editions of Windows and stopped installing the SMB1 client service in most editions of Windows. Home and Pro editions still had the client so users could connect to the va...