Security
Over the years, there have been many security vulnerabilities in Microsoft's implementation of the protocol or components that it directly relies on, with the most recent vulnerability (at time of writing) involving the SMB2 implementation. Other vendors' security vulnerabilities lie primary in a lack of support for newer authentication protocols like NTLMv2 and Kerberos in preference to broken protocols like NTLMv1, LanMan, or even plaintext passwords.
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