Cloudless Software Blog https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/blog/ Quick takes on data ownership, cloud security failures, product updates, and the local-first software movement from Cloudless Software. en-us Tue, 27 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700 https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/images/no-cloud.webp Cloudless Software Blog https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/blog/ Stellar Password Manager Enters Open Beta on Android https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/blog/ blog-stellar-open-beta-2026-05-27 Tue, 27 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Cloudless Software Product Release Stellar Password Manager Stellar Password Manager is now available as an open beta on Android. No cloud account, no server, no tracking. Your passwords stay on your device, encrypted by keys that never leave your hands. Free during the beta.

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]]> New Article: Why Zero-Knowledge Encryption Is Not Enough https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/blog/ blog-eth-zurich-article-2026-05-27 Tue, 27 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Cloudless Software Cybersecurity Password Managers ETH Zurich researchers developed 25 successful attacks against Bitwarden, LastPass, and Dashlane. Every attack required a compromised server. We wrote a deep dive on what happens when there is no server to compromise.

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]]> New Article: Best Offline Password Managers Compared https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/blog/ blog-offline-pm-comparison-2026-05-21 Wed, 21 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Cloudless Software Password Managers Local-First Software We compared four offline password managers — KeePass, Bitwarden, Enpass, and Stellar — using Ink & Switch's local-first software principles as the measuring stick. There is a real difference between "works offline" and "was built for offline."

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]]> New Article: The $500 Scam That Works on 2.3 Billion People https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/blog/ blog-phishing-announcement-2026-05-19 Mon, 19 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Cloudless Software Cybersecurity Phishing Got another cloud storage payment failure phishing email. A campaign costs under $500 to run, the average payout is over $125,000, and the FBI clocked $20.9 billion in cybercrime losses last year. We wrote a deep dive on the whole thing.

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]]> The Local-First Movement Is Growing. Here Is Why It Matters. https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/blog/ blog-local-first-movement-2026-04-18 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Cloudless Software Local-First Software Data Ownership Something is shifting in the software world. Developers, researchers, and companies are building software around a simple idea: your data should live on your device first, and everything else is optional. The local-first movement is gaining serious momentum.

]]> The Identity Protectors Got Their Identity Stolen https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/blog/ blog-aura-breach-2026-03-26 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Cloudless Software Data Breach Cloud Security Aura, one of the largest identity theft protection companies in the US, was breached by a social engineering phone call. ShinyHunters stole 900,000 records and dumped 12 GB of data publicly. The company that sells security got beaten by a phone call.

]]> LastPass: The Breach That Keeps On Taking https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/blog/ blog-lastpass-breach-2026-03-05 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Cloudless Software Password Security Data Breach The 2022 LastPass vault theft has led to $35 million in cryptocurrency stolen through 2025, new phishing campaigns in 2026, and ETH Zurich researchers finding seven vulnerabilities in LastPass encryption. This is not a breach. It is a condition.

]]> Zonality Host Management Released https://www.cloudlesssoftware.com/blog/ blog-zonality-release-2024-02-15 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:00:00 -0800 Cloudless Software Product Release Cloudless Software releases Zonality v1.0 as a free Windows hosts file editor for home and business users with a modern card-based interface.

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