Facebook lets users transfer photos and videos to Dropbox If you’re looking to export photos or videos from your Facebook account, you now have more options. Beginning today, Facebook is allowing users to export those files to Dropbox and the EU startup Koofr, as well as Google Photos. Facebook users worldwide have been able to …
Despite reports over the weekend claiming that Dropbox was hacked, the company has today released a post-mortem of its downtime, with the blame falling onto its update and database infrastructure. The company said that the weekend’s outage was due to a bug within an update script reinstalling a number of machines containing production traffic for …
The behavior was noticed after a file-tracking service was used to watch several files uploaded to Dropbox Dropbox takes a peek at some kinds of uploaded files. That’s normal, the Web storage service says. The disclosure comes after a test of the service found that several “.doc” files were opened after being uploaded to Dropbox. …
In the aftermath, the company is instituting new protections and procedures to bolster the popular cloud storage platform’s security. During the coming weeks, Dropbox will be adding two-factor authentication as a sign-in option. Dropbox will also be keeping an eye on suspicious activity using automated mechanisms and will alert users if they are using easy-to-guess …