“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted Storage-device maker advises customers to unplug My Book Lives from the Internet ASAP. DAN GOODIN - 6/24/2021, 5:10 PM Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug My Disk Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world. The mass incidents of disk wiping came to light in this thread on Western Digital’s support forum. So far, there are no reports of deleted data later being restored. All my data is gone “I have a WD mybook live connected to my home LAN and worked fine for years,” the person starting the thread wrote. “I have just found that somehow all the data on it is gone today, while the directories seems there but empty. Previously the 2T volume was almost full but now it shows full capacity.” ... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...devices-prompts-warning-from-western-digital/ Yow! I would be livid if this happened. My solution these days (upgraded not too long ago from using an old Mac Pro) is actually OpenMediaVault running on a Raspberry Pi, in turn connected to a four-drive USB enclosure. That way I have two copies each of two backup and storage drives. The software is open source and not subject to any remote controls by another entity, so hopefully it will never be vulnerable to this sort of thing. My accounts and passwords on it are all unique, of course, so that no one who might somehow manage to find it and try hacking it should not have a very easy time of it.
I wonder why this is only happening on their external drives... I didn't think there was much difference these days.
It looks like hardware drives are vulnerable. The cloud is looking better by the day. Leave it to the pros to keep the data safe and accessible forever.
Well, it's a NAS, I think, so it has its own CPU and OS running, and the 'malicious actor' is getting access to that system and running a factory restore script somehow.
What, some of the technical issues they used to have? That's a bit of a stretch, but I guess you've got to go by what you know!
I was referring to Pravda suddenly without notice pulling the plug on the Pravda forum... erasing decades of posts. Or maybe YOU received advanced notice?? I was posting that Jan 11 afternoon when suddenly the entire forum disappeared. I had thought something like that might happen when Michael was ready to stand up... but so far, no Michael. .
It connects to your home network the same as any other computer, making it available to any number of different systems. This way your whole family could access it, or in a corporate setting, any number of employees could access it. That's the main thing that sets it apart from a regular external drive plugged into a computer. It also means that you can have access controls separate from your PC login, so that your backup is not automatically compromised if your PC is compromised. You could easily just use an external drive instead, though, if that works for you. That's probably best if you only have one system or are content moving your drive back and forth to different systems, and if your systems can all access the same file system. I use a variety of platforms (because I'm nerdy like that), so a simple external drive would not really work well for me since Macs won't read Linux file systems and will only access Microsoft's NTFS in read-only, while Windows can't access Apple's HFS+ or APFS, nor the Linux file systems. Linux is more flexible out of the box, but will only access Apple's HFS+ in read-only. A NAS, by contrast, allows access through network file sharing, such as SMB, the standard used by Windows and also usable on both Mac and Linux, so any of those platforms can access it just the same.
Ah, I get ya. I wasn't attached enough to that forum or its content to feel badly about its sudden disappearance. Considering the anti-American and anti-Semitic crap and general disinformation posted there day in and day out, I consider its demise a good thing on the whole. Kind of like Donald Trump's entire Twitter history going *POOF* when he was banned
He can't play that game. He doesn't own a social media platform. If he did, it probably would end up a lot like Pravda, though.
I was referring to pulling virtual plugs in general. Something more important than a social media website. .
I thought Pravda was some sort of Russian news outlet, I guess being right wing I'm supposed to know what it was and be familiar with it?
OMV can even be made to emulate an Apple Time Capsule, so that Apple's Time Machine on the Mac can work with it.
We're talking about the English-language forum they had for some 20 years or more. It closed down last January, and did so very suddenly. You can see it archived through the years. The "Main" forum is where most of the action was: https://web.archive.org/web/20201031220644/http://engforum.pravda.ru/index.php?/forum/3-main-forum/
