Krebs on Security
JUNE 25, 2021
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.
SC Magazine
JUNE 25, 2021
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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Pen Test Partners
OCTOBER 31, 2023
and Xerox Corporation provide a facility to export the contents of their Address Book encrypted, but the encryption strength is insufficient. I navigated away from the Address Book section of the device and clicked it again. This led him to reverse engineering the firmware to identify how the CipherValue (AKA the password) was derived.
The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 22, 2024
ChargePoint, with its last firmware update, has disabled the HTTP server and updated the NTP client to address the issues. During the firmware analysis, Sternum identified: •an outdated HTTP server, •deprecated NTP client with known vulnerabilities, •deprecated kernel, and •device certificates with unlimited expiration time (See figure 1).
Malwarebytes
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings. 7 Internet safety tips. Update your child’s device’s firmware.
Security Affairs
JUNE 25, 2021
Threat actors are wiping many Western Digital (WD) My Book Live and My Book Live Duo NAS devices likely exploiting an old vulnerability. Owners of Western Digital (WD) claim that their My Book Live and My Book Live Duo network-attached storage (NAS) devices have been wiped. Pierluigi Paganini.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Security researchers from WizCase have discovered several vulnerabilities in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS. WD My Book, NetGear Stora. CVE-2018-18472 – XXE and Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution in Axentra Hipserv NAS firmware. . Firmware Analysis. Summary of Our Findings.
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