Cloud storage service Mega has released details of the first wave of vulnerabilities identified under its bug bounty program.
Founder Kim DotCom launched the program earlier this month and offered a maximum $13,000 to those who could break the site's security.
Enterprise security firm Venafi claims Kim Dotcom’s offer of €10,000 for the first person to crack his new Mega file storage site will be collected.
The challenge was announced through the site’s blog in response to criticism over its security procedures, including the fact there is no end-to-end encryption.
Looking to share some files with the general public? Whether those files are of the legal or illegal kind, a website has cropped up to index files on Kim Dotcom's brand new cloud-storage site. Mega.co.nz, meet Mega-search.me.
Mega's high-profile launch was under a lot of scrutiny, for obvious reasons, with many curious to see how the fabled encryption features would work. Mega boasted client-side encryption to ensure total privacy over the uploaded files.
But Mega also made it possible to share those files and didn't require users to actually remember or store any key, things which could mean weaker security.
A security researcher has found a cryptographic flaw in the Mega cloud service that could reveal user passwords.
The Mega cloud service was launched on Monday.
Security experts have found a host of security vulnerabilities in Kim Dotcom’s new online storage venture Mega, but many suspect his claims of tough data protection were only a smokescreen to distract attention by law enforcement agencies.
Mega, a follow-up to Dotcom’s Megaupload service shut down by law enforcement, launched on Sunday. Its founder boasted it was “the privacy company”, offering 50GB of free online storage to every user and blanket encryption across the site.
Who wouldn't want 50GBs of free Internet storage? Dropbox is all fine and well, but it starts with a mere 2GBs of free space. Kim Dotcom's newly launched Mega cloud storage service with its free 50GBs of storage sounds much better, but how well does it really work? Let me open by saying it's a long, long way from perfect.
To get your free 50GBs of storage, you first must register your account with a valid e-mail address. Once you've done this—and it may take a while since the system is heavily over-burdened—you'll get a link to use to login to Mega.
Kim Dotcom's launch of Mega has touted the big tagline of being bigger, better, faster, stronger, and safer, but while Dotcom promises 128 bits of AES encryption and the use of 2048 bits of RSA public/private key infrastructure, I'm not too convinced about the last aspect of his sell: the safety.
If there’s one place that you want to be for the launch of Mega.co.nz, it’s within Kim Dotcom’s mansion. That’s precisely where I’ve been today. Sure we knew that Dotcom was larger than life, but actually being at the mansion is a different story. Elaborate statues and expensive pieces of art, giant kitchen sized fish tanks and sprawling pools. It’s an incredible sight.
