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Western Digital My Cloud customers – turn off Cloud access NOW

Posted on March 6, 2017 at 11:26 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

If you have a Western Digital My Cloud network attached storage device, you’re mightily exposed. Jon Fingas at engadget says:

Exploitee.rs has discovered a number of unpatched security flaws in most My Cloud models that let remote intruders bypass the login, insert their own commands and upload files without permission. In numerous cases, it’s a matter of poorly implemented scripts. Also, every command exectued through the web interface has full access to the operating system — an attacker would have the keys to the kingdom.

Bottom line: Everybody with Western Digital My Cloud machines should take Barb Bowman’s advice and Turn Off Cloud Access to your WD My Cloud Device NOW

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