Dropbox is a very convenient way to synchronise data across locations and devices, it is one of the leader for in the cloud storage solutions. However, it has lately gathered some attention for the wrong reasons.
There has been a recent upset about the false claims (or incorrect depending where you stand on this) that no-one could decrypt your data on their data centre, including their staff. Well, it turned out it was no-one *excluding* their staff.
As explained in this article on TECHREPUBLIC
That’s fair enough, so as long as they have the right processes and due diligence in place your data should be safe into their hands, you can trust their staff.
Or can you?
Today, it appeared that while updating their backend code, anyone could connect to ...
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Turning point for Apple Products Security
#43 - Posted on
14 June 2011 - Author: SM - Category: Security
There has recently been an increase in blackhat attention to Apple products.
It would seem that what has been predicted for some time is about to be tested:
that one of the main reason for Mac/OSX to be more secure than windows is because it did not get the same attention from hackers.
This had to happen, and I believe that the time is right.
Indeed, Apple products are gaining more and more market shares and their hippy/cool image is being eroded by both their very strict view of the world and exponantial user base growth.
(On a non security related note, one could wonder how long can Apple be seen as different/cool if everyone has their product!)
This gives every reasons for hackers to take their attention to Mac OSX and iOS.
Recently a fake anti virus software for MAC was discussed on the excellent Intego blog and many other ...
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Free Forensic Resources
#42 - Posted on
13 June 2011 - Author: SM - Category: Security
Below are two interesting Forensic resources I got from Jess Garcia
– Some great free Forensic windows tools, i.e.: to convert time format
http://www.mikesforensictools.co.uk/index.html
– Zero Wine Malware; A promessing virtual environment to analyse malware behaviour and impact
Zero Wine 2.0
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Extreme Pen Testing
#41 - Posted on
13 June 2011 - Author: SM - Category: Security
Here is an amuzing story where prisoners in a maximum security prison managed to hack their lockdown computers.
Their computer seems to be more like a dumb terminal than a full featured one, and what they can do and where they can go is very limited (i.e.: watch television and receive call).
However, the prisoners found out that by opening 200+ windows explorer they could cause a buffer overflow which then allowed them more access!
http://gcn.com/articles/2011/05/30/colorado-prison-sidebar.aspx
and to go with this story here is a photo I came accross on the internet and that summerize the security state of many companies!
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Mobile device security questions
#40 - Posted on
19 May 2011 - Author: SM - Category: Security
The security of mobile devices is receiving an increasing level of attention and many security vendors are now offering a Mobile Device Management solution. What seems to be leading the market is a secured container approach, which although providing a high level of security could potentially be flawed because it does not take into account what is driving users to buy smartphones and tablets.
A container approach is a very secured one with a strong legal aspect, however, the same way the consumerisation of devices is driving unapproved devices in companies today, there is a risk that users want a full consumer experience where different users will have different preferred apps to do a similar task. A container approach does not provide this full consumer experience and locks the user to the functionalities the secured container apps provides.
Therefore a secured container approach may be flawed through another layer of consumerisation, the apps consumerisation where user...
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