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Skype And Dropbox Fix Redirect Security Hole Courtesy of Nir Goldshlager

posted onApril 4, 2013
by l33tdawg

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.

Amazon turns Cloud Drive into a Dropbox rival with file syncing

posted onApril 2, 2013
by l33tdawg

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.

Dropbox hits 100 million users

posted onNovember 15, 2012
by l33tdawg

 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.

Dropbox adds two-factor authentication to make your data more secure

posted onAugust 27, 2012
by l33tdawg

With more and more of our life headed to the cloud, ensuring solid security is more important than ever. With everyone from big corporations like Sony to porn sites and online games suffering the indignity of security breaches in the past year, it is clear that one needs to be incredibly careful about how they manage their online lives. With more and more software being released that lets you access cloud applications from multiple devices, security becomes even more important.

Dropbox Admits User Accounts Were Hijacked

posted onAugust 1, 2012
by l33tdawg

Several weeks ago, reports started to trickle out that a number of Dropbox users were under attack from spam. Since then, Dropbox has been investigating those attacks (with some help from a third-party) and today gave the first update on the progress, saying that some accounts were indeed accessed by hackers, but that it is now adding two-factor authentication and other security features to prevent further problems.

Dropbox: No hacking evidence from spam investigation

posted onJuly 23, 2012
by l33tdawg

Dropbox's ongoing investigation into a possible security breach has not produced any evidence that its systems have been infiltrated, according to an update Friday to the company's user forum.

"As of today, we've found no intrusions into our internal systems and no unauthorized activity in Dropbox accounts," said the update, posted last Friday.

Google Drive nears launch: Will it crush Dropbox?

posted onFebruary 10, 2012
by l33tdawg

Google Drive has been spinning around in the rumour mill for months now, but according to word from the Wall Street Journal, the cloud storage service is set to go live any moment now. Will a seamlessly integrated storage service drop a bomb on rivals like Dropbox?

Google Drive is the search giant’s answer to iCloud, Dropbox, Sky Drive and the myriad other online storage solutions. While Google Docs currently lets you store all manner of files to the tune of 1GB, but you have to pay for more and there are limits to do with file sizes for certain types of documents.