Article 2T0J5 It's 2017 and someone's probably still using WINS naming. If so, stop

It's 2017 and someone's probably still using WINS naming. If so, stop

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Story ImageMicrosoft's NetBIOS naming is vulnerable: use DNS instead

Sysadmins should already have purged WINS from their Microsoft Windows Server environments - but if they haven't, there's a new reason to take it for one last walk out behind the shed."

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