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Western Digital: Disconnect My Book Live drives immediately

SC Magazine

Western Digital stopped supporting My Live drives in 2015, and have not updated their firmware since. Western Digital is asking customers to disconnect My Book Live hard drives from the internet to prevent malware from wiping them of data. Hackers appeared to be taking advantage of a vulnerability first published in 2019.

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MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Krebs on Security

. “Western Digital has determined that some My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices are being compromised through exploitation of a remote command execution vulnerability,” the company said in a statement June 24. The My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices received its final firmware update in 2015.

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InterContinental Hotels' booking systems disrupted by cyberattack

Malwarebytes

The activity significantly disrupted IHG's booking channels and other applications. Booking system. The unavailability of the online booking system must be a major pain for IHG. directly to make, amend or cancel a booking. Use anti-malware software , and keep all operating systems, software, and firmware up to date.

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IoT Secure Development Guide

Pen Test Partners

There is no concrete method to follow as it will rely on contents of the decomposed design from Step 2, but typical examples might include the following: Intellectual property in the device firmware. Deploy malicious firmware. link] [link] Have a software/firmware update mechanism. Cryptographic keys on the device or pod.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Kim Zetter’s book, Countdown to Zero Day, is perhaps the definitive book on the subject. The updates are done through firmware, firmware updates that we get from the vendor. Their security researchers know that maybe they have firmware or maybe they found a program or something somewhere.

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