Imagine reading a headline in tomorrow’s news stating that your neighbor’s identity was stolen and their life savings cleaned out by criminals who entered through their ‘smart’ washing machine.
Ridiculous, you say? Well, have you checked your own home Wi-Fi network lately?
You might have several connected household gadgets and other internet of things (IoT) devices tethered wirelessly through a misconfigured router with no firewall settings. Is the firmware current? Are security patches up to date?
Still not convinced this is a serious problem? Then consider this glaring example of how dangerous an outdated device can be.
In June, Western Digital My Book NAS owners worldwide found out that their devices were mysteriously factory reset and all their files were deleted. My Book Live and My Book Live Duo are personal cloud storage devices.
When the WD product users attempted to log in via the web dashboard, the devices responded that they had an “invalid password.” WD My Book owners could no longer log into the device via a browser or an app.
My Book Live and My Book Live Duo products experienced data loss due to a security incident, according to the Western Digital website. WD informed customers that the company would cover the costs of eligible users with qualifying products to recover their data using the data recovery services (DRS) provided by a Western Digital-selected vendor.
The company promised to cover the costs of shipment of the qualifying product to the DRS vendor and for the data recovery service. Any recovered data would be sent to the customer on a My Passport drive.
Western Digital confirmed that “some My Book Live devices are being compromised by malicious software.” The company also con ..
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