Cloud-storage provider Dropbox has reworked its global maintenance window to suit Australian businesses as part of a business-focused security and governance boost that sees the company taking the fight to business-focused rivals in the exploding market it created.
David Braue | 05 Jun | Read more
Malware authors are proving increasingly successful at seeding fake Google Chrome extensions on Facebook. Appropriate, then, that Facebook launched a platform called ThreatExchange in which users can share information about security threats with their friends.
David Braue | 18 Feb | Read more
Some 100,000 photos taken from Snapchat users weren't the service's fault, although some observers were seizing on the leak to argue for an improvement in security by Snapchat and other online services. Ditto Dropbox, which was also denying it was to blame after hackers published what they claimed were excerpts from 7 million Dropbox credentials; the cloud-storage giant blamed a third-party service for the leak, but security experts were still using the event to push their case for users to adopt two-factor authentication – particularly given that cloud security and ubiquitous identity for cloud services is still over a year away.
David Braue | 21 Oct | Read more