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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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Disconnect your WD My Book Live from the internet or face data deletion, says Western Digital

Graham Cluley

Storage drive maker Western Digital is telling owners of its WD My Book Live device to disconnect it from the internet, after reports that some have had their data erased by malicious software. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Internet 138
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“Fire Doesn’t Innovate” by Kip Boyle (Book Review)

Adam Shostack

I hate reviewing books by people I know, because I am a picky reader, and if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. I also tend to hate management books, because they often substitute jargon for crisp thinking. It is not a book for the CSO. The book is organized into two major parts.

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Western Digital: Disconnect My Book Live drives immediately

SC Magazine

Western Digital is asking customers to disconnect My Book Live hard drives from the internet to prevent malware from wiping them of data. “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. .

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‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads July Microsoft Patches

Krebs on Security

A full 17 other critical flaws fixed in this release tackle security weaknesses that Microsoft assigned its most dire “critical” rating, such as in Office , Internet Exploder , SharePoint , Visual Studio , and Microsoft’s.NET Framework. Thankfully, I was able to restore from a recent backup.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 426 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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Hacking et Cybersécurité Mégapoche pour les Nuls: New French Book on Hacking and CyberSecurity Now Available

Joseph Steinberg

Hacking et Cybersécurité Mégapoche pour les Nuls , a single-volume book containing French versions of the latest editions of both the best selling CyberSecurity for Dummies by Joseph Steinberg, and Hacking For Dummies by Kevin Beaver, is now available to the public.

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