Port 445 provides SMB over TCP. From Microsoft "Windows supports file and printer sharing traffic by using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol directly hosted on TCP. This differs from earlier operating systems, in which SMB traffic requires the NetBIOS over TCP (NBT) protocol to work on a TCP/IP transport." If not at the top of the list, ...
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Network expansion to 4 Tbit/s
In order to maintain the quality of our services and due the very high demand for bandwidth, we will expand our network even further. Last week new Arista routers have been added to our network. This week 500 Gbit/s of extra transit capacity will be connected and next week an additional 500 Gbit/s will be connected. ...
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According to its parent company Avast, more than 130 million people use the performance optimisation software CCleaner. And today all of those people need to be sure they have installed the latest update because some nasty malware has managed to make it into one of the builds.
Piriform's CCleaner was purchased by the popular anti-virus developer ...
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Hackers have successfully breached CCleaner’s security to inject malware into the app and distribute it to millions of users. Security researchers at Cisco Talos discovered that download servers used by Avast (the company that owns CCleaner) were compromised to distribute malware inside CCleaner. “For a period of time, the legitimate signed ...
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