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Dropbox hacked?

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 […]

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How to exhaust the space on any online backup system

Check the other article I wrote about Dropbox. While playing with the mklink, I made a mistake of trying something new: mklink /D S t:S Remember that the Dropbox folder was located in T:S. So, basically I created a circular reference… and this is what happened:   This is what was transferred until when I […]

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About Cloud Computing in Darkreading.com

When Consumers Go To The Cloud, Businesses Should Watch Out Companies should take a look at what cloud services their employees are using following last week’s authentication bug at Dropbox Dropbox encrypts data on the servers, but not to individual accounts, notes Sorin Mustaca, a product manager with security firm Avira. Anyone with admin access […]