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Dropbox urges its storage service users to change password

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Storage services, since a couple of years, they have become the preferred choice for storing documents, photos, videos or any other file that needed us to always have. Thanks to mobile applications, we can access to them, and even according to edit it directly in the cloud.

When them big companies began to set is in this type of services, Google launched Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive to which change the name by OneDrive, them users of Dropbox began to see as others services of storage orfrecian a greater amount of space that them 2 sad GB that always us has offered Dropbox as split, space that can expand performing different tasks of promotion in the networks social.

Four years ago, the storage service Dropbox had a serious problem with the theft of the accounts and their respective passwords of many of the service accounts, forcing users to stick to rapidly change the passwords for access to this service. But not all the users is looked affected by this problem of safety by what never came to change the password in that time.

Dropbox is randomly sending an email to your customers reminding them that they should change their password. Apparently the storage service is being in touch with all those users who created an account den July 2012, he has that since then he has not received any update of your password. Apparently it is a precautionary measure since the service has not been compromised at any time.

It first that must have in has to manage our passwords, is not using the typical as 123456789, password, password, dates commemorative public, the name of our pet… In second place there are that have in features of the passwords always must change them periodically. Programs of password management 1Password for iPhone and Mac as they allow us to create passwords for any web service password that is also stored along with the web and the user name of an application which, in turn, is protected by a master password.

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