This is one of those times where you read the End User License Agreement, realize what you clicked, then kind of sigh. Dropbox has quietly updated the terms and its criteria for it free Basic Tier account. These accounts are now limited to three linked devices. Users will have to purchase a $10/month Plus or […]
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In these days of massive data breaches and multi-step authentication, perhaps the best question is whether your accounts have been breached in the first place? On Sunday, notable computer maven, philosopher and all-around wise human being Dirk A. Keaton pointed out the mighty haveibeenpwned.com, an aggregator web site that compiles breaches, lets people enter their […]
The debate continues. Apple, along with other major technology companies, have formed the privacy-focused Reform Government Surveillance (RGS) coalition as part of an effort to fight government agencies pushing for the addition of encryption backdoors. The RGS offered the following statement on Wednesday: “Recent reports have described new proposals to engineer vulnerabilities into devices and […]
Well, there’s a pretty good reason Dropbox asked a large segment of its user base to change their passwords last week. The password change, which focused on users who had signed up period to mid-2012, followed the discovery of a large dump of email addresses and passwords related to these accounts. The online storage company […]
It’s a bit of a strong measure, but Dropbox decided to take it. On Friday, Dropbox required users who hadn’t logged in since mid-2012 to change their account passwords. The company stated that this was a preventative measure and that this wasn’t an indication that accounts had been improperly accessed. They concluded by apologizing for […]