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MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Krebs on Security

Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.

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Router Security

Schneier on Security

Nonetheless, all but one vendor spread several private keys in almost all firmware images. was released in October 2010. There’s often no one around to write patches, and most of the time router firmware isn’t even patchable. Anyhow, they are used quite rarely by most vendors except the NX feature.

Firmware 275
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Router security in 2021

SecureList

A router is a gateway from the internet to a home or office — despite being conceived quite the opposite. Number of router vulnerabilities according to cve.mitre.org, 2010–2022 ( download ). Number of router vulnerabilities according to nvd.nist.gov, 2010–2022 ( download ). Make sure to update the firmware. Conclusion.

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SweynTooth Bluetooth flaws affect devices from major system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors

Security Affairs

The protocol Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) was released in 2010 and it is designed to implement a new generation of services for mobile applications. The issue initially causes denial of service ( DoS ), but “attackers could reverse engineer products firmware to possibly leverage remote execution,” the researchers say.

IoT 109
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WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS

Security Affairs

CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . It’s used in different devices from different vendors, the affected devices sharing the firmware are: Netgear Stora. The company provides a firmware with a web interface that mainly uses PHP as a serverside language.

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Millions of Arris routers are vulnerable to path traversal attacks

Malwarebytes

This web server is present in Arris firmware which can be found in several router models. ISP customer premise equipment (CPE) often uses this web server, and ISP subscribers will typically get these routers in loan for telephony and Internet access. last official release 2010) has a path traversal vulnerability.

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Millions of Arris routers are vulnerable to path traversal attacks

Malwarebytes

This web server is present in Arris firmware which can be found in several router models. ISP customer premise equipment (CPE) often uses this web server, and ISP subscribers will typically get these routers in loan for telephony and Internet access. last official release 2010) has a path traversal vulnerability.