Re: Security News This Week: Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
"Mayayana" <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Jun 2021 08:10:54 -0400
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<[email protected]> wrote | Please put <> around links to force them onto one line. You | probably know that but are just too lazy to do it. | While you're fighting about links... It turns out the story is not what it seems: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/06/27/008211/western-digital-blames-remotely-installed-trojans-for-wiping-my-book-storage-devices The problem is with "My Book Live", an idiotic and unsafe "personal cloud" device designed to be accessed from online. So as with remote desktop, the real problem is with people thinking it's safe to allow direct access to their computers from the Internet.