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Skype And Dropbox Fix Redirect Security Hole Courtesy of Nir Goldshlager
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-04-04 05:18
Nir Goldshlager just saved your identity. One of the world’s top white hat security researchers, Goldshlager this week helped Skype and Dropbox fix a critical security flaw that could have let hackers take control of their users’ Facebook accounts. Tomorrow Goldshlager will detail how he found the exploit, but he gave TechCrunch the early heads up. Here’s how hackers exploit the hole.
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Amazon turns Cloud Drive into a Dropbox rival with file syncing
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-04-02 05:50
Amazon's Cloud Drive was unveiled two years ago for the primary purpose of letting customers store music files purchased from Amazon. Although you could upload other files to Cloud Drive, it wasn't a replacement for cloud storage services like Dropbox because it didn't automatically sync files from one computer to another.
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Dropbox woos enterprise IT with new admin and security tools
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-02-14 09:28
Several file-sharing companies have been billed as "Dropbox for the enterprise." Turns out Dropbox wants that title as well. The company has made that point clear as it has rolled out features aimed at alleviating IT departments' skepticism of the service's viability and trustworthiness in a corporate setting.
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Dropbox, Google Drive get in-browser security boost through BoxCryptor plugin
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-12-13 05:20
Here’s one for business or otherwise privacy-hungry users of Chrome: BoxCryptor has released an experimental plugin that makes it possible to encrypt and decrypt files stored in Dropbox and Google Drive without needing to fiddle around with desktop apps.
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Dropbox hits 100 million users
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-11-15 00:48
Dropbox has announced that it has reached 100 million users, an impressive number to be sure. For comparison's sake, here's Wikipedia's list of virtual communities with more than 100 million users, which currently has seven companies on it, so Dropbox has just joined a very exclusive club. Twitter, for example, hit 100 million earlier this year, and Facebook has 166.1 million users in the US at last count. To think that Dropbox is shoulder to shoulder with those kinds of companies is very impressive indeed.
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