Net Neutrality: a day of action
On the 12th of July, websites (including this one), Internet users, and online communities will come together to sound the alarm about the FCC’s attack on net neutrality. Before we go into why this is very bad, we need to cover a couple of things: Net Neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should enable […]
Read more »Nimbox becomes a Crown Commercial Service (G-Cloud 9) supplier
I’m incredibly excited to announce that Nimbox has been awarded a Crown Commercial Service agreement for the supply of our secure team collaboration tools into the UK public sector. From today, organisations across the public sector—including national and local government, health, education, devolved administrations, emergency services, and defence—can purchase Vault through the Digital Marketplace, the […]
Read more »Nimbox donates combat medical kits to anti-poaching rangers
We believe in doing the right thing, and whilst that usually means making ethical business decisions, and providing secure communication channels for the people who need them the most—such as investigative journalists—we recently had the opportunity to do a different kind of right thing. Working with Veterans for Wildlife, we donated fifteen combat first aid […]
Read more »Vault 2.5.4.1070 — Release Notes
Agent, Web App, and Outlook Plugin version: 2.5.4.1070 It’s release day, hurrah! We have some more bug fixes for you. Keep that feedback coming! Bug fixes Your organisation dashboard is now displaying accurate usage data Stability improvements for the desktop client As always, if you encounter any problems after this update, please clear your browser […]
Read more »WannaCry attack updates
I’m sure you’re all aware of the ransomware attack that occurred over the weekend, affecting organisations all over the country, including the NHS, and thousands of businesses across Europe. This particular attack was enabled by an NSA-built piece of malware, that is particularly aggressive in its infection method, and looking past the usual media hype, […]
Read more »Vault 2.5.4.1069 — Release Notes
Agent, Web App, and Outlook Plugin version: 2.5.4.1069 This update? It’s just bug fixes. We have some awesome things cooking in the oven, though. As always, if you encounter any problems after this update, please clear your browser cache or log out and log back in. If you experience issues with a desktop client, close […]
Read more »Transparency in tickets – March 2017
Our team has been working really hard on improving our support response and resolution times, and as you can see from the numbers above, we made great progress last month. This is what our engineers were kept busy with in March: 152 tickets 44 telephone calls, with 5 of these resulting in tickets 2 client […]
Read more »Vault 2.5.4 — Release Notes
Agent, Web App, and Outlook Plugin version: 2.5.4 It’s release day, hurrah! Improvements and bug fixes We’ve improved auto-locking, which now properly handles uncommon file names, if that’s your thing The Outlook client’s prompts have received a lick of paint Desktop syncing performance is much better, handling compression in environments that have bandwidth throttling configured, […]
Read more »Vault 2.5.3 — Release Notes
Agent, Web App, and Outlook Plugin version: 2.5.3 Stand by your beds; it’s release time! New features and improvements Our snapshot feature is now live for backups You can now use Brazilian Portuguese and French on the web and mobile apps Personally identifiable information (username and email address) will now be completely removed from our […]
Read more »Hey Nimboxers, we have killed ransomware in your organisation
As you’d probably guess, we’ve seen our fair share of ransomware attacks at our current, and soon-to-be, Nimbox customers. If you’re not familiar with ransomware, imagine this: all of your business files become permanently inaccessible, unless you pay a large cash ransom to anonymous criminals. We say no more. No more fear, and no more […]
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