For most consumers, it may be difficult to require brands to constantly add new features to old products. However, for products that focus on networking functions, it should be a fairly basic task to continuously provide and maintain security updates. Recently, WD’s My Cloud network hard drive product series has not only been exposed but alsoA vulnerability that inexplicably erases data. More information security experts have additionally revealed the zero-day vulnerability in the old system. However, in response to the latter’s official response, in addition to upgrading to the new version of My Cloud OS 5, which had several functions removed, extremely negative solutions were given for models that are too old to upgrade to the new system… Continue reading WD NAS has a zero-day vulnerability, and some old products cannot fix the holes and can only buy new ones.
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WD NAS has a 0-day vulnerability. Some old products cannot fix the holes and have to buy new ones.
Regarding the vulnerability discovered by security experts Pedro Ribeiro and Radek Domanski, which could allow interested parties to brick the NAS, it is said that the official has not responded immediately. However, in subsequent media inquiries, it was mentioned that My Cloud OS 5, which has undergone a major structural overhaul and physical upgrade, does not have such problems, so an upgrade solution is recommended.
However, regardless of the upgradeSome older version features cannot be usedstatus. Even after considering security and making trade-offs in terms of functionality, there are still several WD My Cloud NAS products that are not supported by the new system. What’s even worse is that there are also older products that are directly marked as “Not Supported” in big red letters.
And justOfficial announcement about this vulnerability, it has been confirmed that the old version of My Cloud OS 3 will no longer provide any secure firmware upgrades. So for users of these new systems who can’t upgrade to a (currently) secure system. The only option left is to buy a new one, or just use the official oneas said, you can turn off the most important remote function of the network hard drive.
Oh, by the way, I didn’t forget to add a disclaimer to the My Cloud OS 3 fix file kindly provided by security experts Pedro Ribeiro and Radek Domanski. They responded very quickly to this aspect.
It must be said that in this era where everything is connected to the Internet. A brand’s sincerity in software support will definitely be reflected in the product’s reputation – whether it’s good or bad. In fact, it is not required to provide new functions, but at least it can maintain security for as long as possible, and do not cause the embarrassing situation of old products becoming useless and being unable to use the originally announced functions. In this regard, I believe that not only users will “learn from experience”, but other consumers will also take these actions into consideration.
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