I recently got invited to Google+ and had a curious first look. Google+ seems to be enforcing HTTPS on all pages. Given the current Facebook security issue with HTTPS this is good news. Also had a look at diaspora*, which has some active development. First public community supported diaspora* pods, such as diasp.org or diasp.eu […]
Category: security
Back in March 2010 we started an investigation into online file storage services and Dropbox in particular. Sebastian and Manuel started to disassemble the Dropbox binary and in essence created an alternative client by patching its crypto libraries. In the months that followed we found a number of security flaws with Dropbox. In November 2010 […]
A couple of month passed since Facebook introduced full SSL support. This optional feature lets you browse Facebook via a secure connection (https) whenever possible. Facebook via https is now available to all users and why are so few people using it? I suppose because the option is disabled per default. -> Enable this option! […]