Dropbox Hacked / Webroot Backup Still Never Been Hacked

  • 29 August 2013
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From BusinessInsider.com:
Two security researchers blew by Dropbox's security features, gained access to private user files and published a paper that explained how they did it.

Their goal was to get Dropbox to create an open source version of itself, which means that anyone could look at its code and verify that the service is secure.

"Dropbox will/should no longer be a black box," the researchers, Dhiru Kholia of Openwall and Przemys?aw Wegrzyn of CodePainters, wrote in their research paper.
 
More importantly, they "reverse engineered" the portion of Dropbox that runs on a user's computer. That means they looked at Dropbox's programming code. They shouldn't have been able to do that. Dropbox was written in Python using techniques that prevent reverse engineering.
 
The full story is available here.

 


 
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