68 Million Exposed in Old Dropbox Hack By Ionut Arghire on August 31, 2016 In an email response to a SecurityWeek inquiry, IT security expert Sorin Mustaca said that the surprising fact is that the 2012 hack of Dropbox didn’t emerge earlier, along with the other mega-breaches. He also notes that the use of the […]
You probably have read on news portals that Dropbox was hacked and that some user accounts were compromised. Here is the alleged list of leaked user information. Dropbox is saying that the data is not valid. Apparently, Dropbox was not hacked. The company is clearly stating this on their blog. Recent news articles claiming that […]
The Heartbleed problem is long fixed, at least on the major website around the world. But, the effects of this problem are by for not gone. I received at least 10 emails in the past week asking me nicely to change by password. Last week, a major vulnerability called “Heartbleed” surfaced for the […]
I have published the first article in this series in the Avira Techblog here :http://techblog.avira.com/2011/01/31/improve-your-security-1-complex-passwords-arent-always-better And, as a confirmation of what I wrote, I found this article on CIO Magazine: Apple and Google will kill password If I could only offer them a hand 🙂 Actually, I could do something in this direction by creating […]
Recently I’ve had the exam for the CompTIA Security+ Certification. While practicing for the exam, I’ve had the following question. Q:When setting password rules, which of the following will lower the level of security of a network ? A: Complex passwords that users can not remotely changed are randomly generated by the administrator and given […]
Together with Dirk Knopp I published an update to the Opera Unite – Everybody is becoming a Web server which is called : Potential Threat through Opera Unite, Part II. I have written some details about the P2P networks and about how Opera is using the concept. I am thinking now to build a honeypot […]
