Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Researchers Find Security Hole In Western Digital My Cloud Drives

Western Digital, the disk-drive and storage giant which has significant operations in Irvine, apparently has a large security hole in its My Cloud storage drives. According to security researchers, a "provilege escalation bug" allows attackers to bypass the admin password on those drives, giving them complete conrol over the data stored on those devices--which are often placed on the internet. WD has reportedly failed to patch the vulnerability, but has promised a fix "within a few weeks"

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