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FBI vs. Apple 1 Year Ago: Have our devices become more or less secure?

Rafael Laguna on Jan 31, 2017

It’s been a year since the FBI hacked San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone. The news made international headlines and renewed public interest in data encryption and personal privacy. Apple became a nucleus...

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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...

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Support OpenStreetMap and save our data

Rafael Laguna on Nov 24, 2016

We’ve already discussed the threat to your privacy posed by internet giants like Google and Facebook. Users voluntarily – often unwittingly – hand over valuable personal data to these companies that are then mine...

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Watch out for digital horrors this Halloween

Rafael Laguna on Oct 31, 2016

For a real horror story this Halloween I invite you all to think about the sheer number of organized criminals there are out there, behind the pixels and the code you’re looking at right now. Every year, hundreds...

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Secure email service – OX partner mailbox.org wins comparative investigatio...

guest on Oct 5, 2016

Long-time Open-Xchange partner, and OX App Suite vendor, Heinlein Support has won an important comparitive investigation between email providers. The Berlin-based firm Heinlein Support consults clients on Linux, ...

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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...

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Integrating OX efficiently into customers’ environments

guest on Aug 29, 2016

How enterprises benefit from the collaboration between Open-Xchange and their integration partner tarent solutions.

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Market insight: Verizon acquires Yahoo – what does this mean for your ISP?

guest on Aug 8, 2016

Last week, after a process lasting many months, Verizon announced it is acquiring Yahoo. The dominant Internet portal only a decade ago, in more recent years Yahoo’s position has waned with the much publicised at...

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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...

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Considering using Infrastructure as a Service? Why Dovecot’s Encryption of ...

Neil Cook on Jul 20, 2016

Today I want to talk about encryption again. Previously I’ve blogged about the benefits of transport encryption, particularly for protecting emails from man-in-the-middle snooping or mass surveillance, which is s...

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