How Nextcloud protects your business from license uncertainty

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Created: Friday, 02 March 2018 19:46

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Running a business is balancing risks as any signed contract or bought product can cause problems down the line. The fine print in various contracts and software licenses need close scrutiny. The AGPL under which Nextcloud delivers its software gives enterprises the certainty that comes with a widely used and understood license designed to protect...

Irony: Dropbox saved 75 million by moving away from cloud hosting

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Created: Tuesday, 27 February 2018 10:49

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Dropbox, in its S1-statement last Friday, showed it reduced its operating costs by nearly 75 million over the next two years by moving storage away from Amazon onto its own infrastructure. Cost savings are only one part of why moving away from cloud storage can be beneficial, but it is a significant driver.

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One of the organizations behind reporting on the Panama Papers uses Nextcloud

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Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:58

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OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) is one of the many organizations that were involved with the release of the Panama Papers. Considering the nature of work OCCRP does, they rely heavily on vendor neutral, enterprise grade open source technologies.

We talked to Michał “Rysiek” Wozniak, Chief Information Security Officer at OCCR...

Nextcloud will check passwords against database of HaveIBeenPwned

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Created: Monday, 26 February 2018 11:19

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Users tend to use the same passwords in multiple locations, which poses a significant risk in case passwords are stolen. Last Thursday, Security researcher Troy Hunt, known from his site HaveIBeenPwned, expanded his existing dataset of 306 million leaked passwords with another 200 million, bringing the total to half a billion. Organizations can...