"BadLock": extreme samba & SMB threat incoming! Get ready!

[Elixer]

http://badlock.org/

On April 12th, 2016, a crucial security bug in Windows and Samba will be disclosed. We call it: Badlock.

Engineers at Microsoft and the Samba Team are working together to get this problem fixed. Patches will be released on April 12th.

Admins and all of you responsible for Windows or Samba server infrastructure: Mark the date. (Again: It's April 12th, 2016.)

Please get yourself ready to patch all systems on this day. We are pretty sure that there will be exploits soon after we publish all relevant information

 

[Elixer]

BTW, those of you with routers that have samba, it is advisable to disable it immediately.

 

[Red Squirrel]

This is only an issue if you have those ports open to the internet right? It seems that would be a bad idea either way. Still good to patch though, I tend to run an update on my systems every now and then anyway so I'll be sure to wait a day or so and then do it.