Last Friday Mathew Honan, a tech reporter with Wired.com, experienced a hacking incident that perfectly illustrates the vulnerabilities we expose when we rely on cloud services, linked accounts, and — especially — use of one favorite master password for multiple accounts. There's another...
Dropbox, the popular cloud storage service, today contacted users and announced on its blog that a few of its users' accounts had been accessed via usernames and passwords stolen from other sites. In addition to helping the owners of the breached accounts secure their data, Dropbox has introduced...
Personal cloud storage service options are popping up everywhere: Dropbox, Box, Microsoft's SkyDrive, Apple's iCloud. And announced just this week, Google's Drive. Typically, such services offer more than just storage. They also include file management, sharing and even syncing. Most offer...
As a business that might be relying on the cloud to ensure your data is backed up, you should beware the fine print and terms that define any service plan as "unlimited." It turns out that some plans will throttle (slow down your upload speed) your data after you've hit a certain limit. That...
If you are a frequent user of any of Google's myriad services, you have a LOT of data sitting in the company's databases. Contact information, calendars, documents of all kinds, photos and more make up the common types of information many people have begun to rely on Google to store and serve up...
Cloud computing is a popular term for the delivery of computing resources - applications, storage or processing power - as a service via a network, most often the internet. The cloud computing and cloud based storage model is often compared to a public utility: you do not keep and maintain the...
