The cloud-storage service Mega's automatic file-encryption process does a great job of protecting Mega's business model, but isn't so good at protecting users' files. "All that matters is Mega's ...

It seems like Mega could use a similar strategy as we do when updating password hashing algorithms. The old hash is kept in a database until the users next login. When they login you check to see if ...

MEGA has released a security update to address a set of severe vulnerabilities that could have exposed user data, even if the data had been stored in encrypted form. MEGA is a New Zealand-based cloud ...

Can the new "Mega" file-sharing service from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom be trusted to keep users' data secure and hidden from prying eyes? Twelve months ago, the Department of Justice shut down ...

"For a short time, there was potential for an attacker to negate our commitment, in very limited circumstances and for a very few users, but that has now been fixed," the chairman, Stephen Hall, wrote ...