{"id":3716,"date":"2012-08-01T20:34:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2012-08-01T20:34:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:34:28","slug":"following-hack-dropbox-adds-security-already-found-in-most-enterprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/following-hack-dropbox-adds-security-already-found-in-most-enterprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Hack, Dropbox Adds Security Already Found in Most Enterprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->I\u2019m sure most of you spotted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-online.com\/security\/news\/item\/Spam-attack-on-Dropbox-users-1646660.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> a couple weeks back about the spam attack on Dropbox users. Now, an internal Dropbox <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/07\/31\/dropbox-admits-user-accounts-were-hijacked-adds-new-security-features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation<\/a> reveals that indeed user accounts were hijacked and they are adding new security features.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Dropbox is taking a number of steps, which they laid out in the post. We\u2019ve shared them below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two-factor authentication, a way to optionally require a unique code in addition to your password when signing in. (Coming in a few weeks)<\/li>\n<li>New automated mechanisms to help identify suspicious activity. We\u2019ll continue to add more of these over time.<\/li>\n<li>A new page that lets you examine all active logins to your account.<\/li>\n<li>In some cases, we may require you to change your password. (For example, if it\u2019s commonly used or hasn\u2019t been changed in a while)\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is always a bad thing when personal data is compromised and we do not want to engage in too much &#8222;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schadenfreude\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schadenfreude<\/a>&#8222;. However looking at the above it seems that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This is exactly what most large and mid-size enterprises are already doing with web service access they run, in their own data center<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Those are standard procedures called Identity Management<\/p>\n<p>By seamlessly integrating into these existing procedures ownCloud is capable of immediately allowing cloud service-based access to files, while under full control by IT and security procedures companies mandate.<\/p>\n<p>This is top of mind of the prospects and partners I talk to on a daily basis: Security and Integration paired with the ease-of-use and the ability to brand a solution to be the &#8222;ABC Bank Drive&#8220; and represent the corporate identity so employees and partners can attach themselves to the service and love to work with it.<\/p>\n<p>Those advantages plus the flexibible open source nature of ownCloud make it so interesting to talk with our partners or us directly about ownCloud.<\/p>\n<p>Your Data, Your Cloud, Your Way!<!--:--><!--:de--><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sure most of you spotted the news a couple weeks back about the spam attack on Dropbox users. Now, an internal Dropbox investigation reveals that indeed user accounts were hijacked and they are adding new security features. &#8222;Dropbox is taking a number of steps, which they laid out in the post. We\u2019ve shared them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}