IoT security is not A-OK
Everyone knows that the internet can be a dangerous place. Phishing continues to increase in volume and effectiveness, affecting everybody from private users to internet giants like Google and Facebook. Meanwhile...
Neil Cook
PowerDNS Head of Product
Responsible data - it’s not only possible, it’s essential
Neil Cook
on May 9, 2018
Verizon’s Oath, which owns both Yahoo and AOL, has recently updated privacy policies pertaining to its use of user data, including scanning of user emails, instant messages, photos and other data on any of its su...
Unpicking the Investigatory Powers Leak
Neil Cook
on May 12, 2017
At first I was very concerned at the reports on the recently leaked UK Investigatory Powers (Technical Capability) Regulations 2017 paper. Many commentators seem to think that this means that UK telcos will not b...
Dispatch from RSA
Neil Cook
on Feb 19, 2017
I attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, a yearly gathering of cybersecurity professionals and security vendors. I attended my first conference as an OX representative last year, and it’s been in...
Impressive Results from Mozilla-Sponsored Dovecot Security Audit
Neil Cook
on Jan 16, 2017
Well as 2017 kicks off, we have some great news to share. One of the things we take very seriously here at Open-Xchange is the security of our software, which for us is a ground-up process which involves every as...
Dispatch from M3AAWG 38th General Meeting, Paris
Neil Cook
on Oct 27, 2016
This week I’ve been attending the beautiful city of Paris for the M3AAWG Conference, which is a gathering of industry experts to combat the problems of abuse in messaging, mobile and malware.
Tackling Password Brute-Forcing and Authentication Abuse
Neil Cook
on Sep 8, 2016
Since joining Open-Xchange last year, one of the security products that I’ve been closest to has been a project that started as a collaboration between our colleagues at PowerDNS and Dovecot, which tackles the th...
How can businesses go about drawing up guidelines to protect consumer priva...
Neil Cook
on Aug 16, 2016
Companies like Google, Amazon and Cisco as well as a raft other companies (it seems like every company has to have an IOT play these days), have based whole business models on selling connected devices that perfo...
Going public with our new bug bounty program
Neil Cook
on Aug 8, 2016
I have some really exciting news this week, which I’ve been wanting to share for a while. The Open-Xchange group of companies, including PowerDNS and Dovecot, now have public bug bounty programs hosted on hackero...
