Users with the file synchronization and hosting service Dropbox running on their system needed to take good care of the authentication files of the service. These files were generated during first authentication on the system. The issue here for many users was that a third party could copy the authentication files to sync all of [...]

Categories: Online Services, Security

The popular cloud hosting and syncing service Dropbox has been in the news lately. First there were reports about Dropbox being insecure because of a configuration file that could allow anyone to access a user’s Dropbox storage. Then there were news that photo galleries might be accessible on the Internet without the user’s knowledge. If [...]

Categories: The Web

Here is a task for you. Go to Google, Bing or your preferred search engine, and enter the following search term into the search box at the top: site:http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/ What’s the result? Right, 25k of unprotected Dropbox photo galleries. You can click on any of the links to see the contents of the selected gallery [...]

Categories: Security, The Web