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Badlock Bug Looms Large as April Deadline Nears

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Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 24, 2016

There is a new branded security vulnerability known as Badlock on the horizon, complete with its own Website and logo. Badlock is a currently unknown vulnerability in the open-source Samba project that enables interoperability for file and folder sharing between Linux and Windows environments. Full disclosure and a patch on the Badlock vulnerability is currently scheduled for April 12.
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