Lukas' Random Thoughts

Tag: Nextcloud

  • CSP, ‘unsafe-eval’ and jQuery

    At Nextcloud we do employ a pretty strict Content-Security-Policy (CSP). In case you need a quick explanation what CSP is, I’d suggest reading this older blog post of mine. One of the caveats with the implementation in Nextcloud is that we had to allow ‘unsafe-eval’ because of our historically grown code base. For example, we use handlebars.js for…

  • Nextcloud and its planned update improvements

    In the past, the update experiences with ownCloud have been difficult. It was not always clear when updates would be released for the updater app or how to move to a new major release. Apps disappeared after an update or apps were updated to an incompatible version (e.g. with a broken PHP dependency), or simply…

  • Nextcloud: Bruteforce, Two-Factor and more

    As you may have read in the official Nextcloud announcement we’re today releasing the Nextcloud 10 beta release. Besides adding a lot of awesome new features it also includes several security hardenings, such as adding support for a native bruteforce protection and Two-Factor Authentication. Nextcloud commits to keeping your data secure, we’re even going so far to…

  • Nextcloud, Bug Bounties and me

    It is a well-known fact that I’m a vocal supporter of Bug Bounty programs. I do believe that running a fair and engaging bug bounty program is a great addition to any software security process. My personal experiences with Bug Bounties go back to the end of 2011 where somebody made me aware of the…

  • Security and Nextcloud 9

    We’re constantly working on adding more security features and hardenings to Nextcloud, after all it’s your data and it has to be protected properly. While the Nextcloud 9 release fixes a critical security issue (we have informed upstream about this but in the meanwhile recommend upgrading as soon as possible) it also adds another new…