Dropbox gets top marks for security
Dropbox ups its security with new global certification following a history of vulnerabilities.
Margi Murphy | 21 May | Read more
Dropbox ups its security with new global certification following a history of vulnerabilities.
Margi Murphy | 21 May | Read more
Cloud providers' requirement to demonstrate their security capabilities to existing and potential customers is driving key cloud services to undergo certification to an emerging global standard that will help Australian businesses meet legal requirements for protection of personally identifiable information (PII).
David Braue | 19 May | Read more
Dropbox has had its share of security woes over the years. While the cloud storage provider has done much to beef up its defenses, there's still plenty you can do on your own to improve the safety of your files. Here are a few ways to get started.
Michael Ansaldo | 15 May | Read more
Companies are increasingly turning to threat intelligence to help shape their response to security attacks, which some have argued must become increasingly defensive as the nature of the threat changes over time.
David Braue | 11 May | Read more
As if it wasn't enough that security staff were playing a continuous game of catch-up – investigating an average of 1.5 security breaches per week even as research reveals institutional investors don't believe company boards have the security threat under control – it turns out Australians' world-leading love of social media has made us world-leading targets for ransomware purveyors and malware criminals that are using extremely complex techniques against us.
David Braue | 20 Apr | Read more
Dropbox said on Wednesday it will pay rewards to independent researchers who find software flaws in its applications, joining a growing list companies who see merit in crowdsourcing parts of their security testing.
Jeremy Kirk | 16 Apr | Read more
Cloud file storage firm Dropbox will begin paying security researchers for finding bugs in its software, but instead of saying which bugs do qualify for payment it's laid out a long list of bugs that don't.
Resource-stretched CSOs were forced to investigate an average of 1.5 security incidents every week last year and lost significant amounts of time playing catch-up with ever-nimbler cybercriminals, a survey of IT and security professionals has found.
David Braue | 15 Apr | Read more
All malware is bad, but ransomware is particularly insidious--ask any ransomware victim. That's why a new attack scheme called "Pacman" has raised alarms, because it's even nastier than usual. Think of the classic Pac-Man game's voracious yellow ball, chomping up all of your files. It takes only one click to infect a vulnerable PC, and the attack gives victims only 24 hours to pay the ransom in Bitcoins or risk losing all of the compromised data.
Tony Bradley | 04 Apr | Read more
Persistent shortcomings in corporate information-security policy continue to compromise security efforts by exposing organisations to human error and the ever more-clever depredations of ransomware and other malware authors, peak security group CompTIA has warned on the back of new research showing that just 54 percent of surveyed companies offer their employees any form of cybersecurity training.
David Braue | 01 Apr | Read more
Website password strength meters, like a spouse asked to assess your haircut or outfit, often tell you only what you want to hear.
Android apps that use Dropbox for storage and are built using an older version of its SDK are vulnerable to an attack that can steal data, although Dropbox has released a fix, according to IBM security researchers.
Jeremy Kirk | 12 Mar | 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
In last week's column, I explained the use and benefit (and some of the drawbacks) of turning on full-disk encryption (FDE) with Apple's built-in FileVault 2.
Glenn Fleishman | 13 Feb | Read more
Facebook has launched ThreatExchange, which is open to any company and lets them share emerging threat information with their peers and is kicking off with Silicon Valley heavyweights.