NAS Vulnerbilities

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28707117

Similarly Jacob Holcomb from Independent Security Evaluators has found a large number of easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities in many popular NAS boxes. Many hand over data when hit by the most basic attacks, he said.

Like what?

stop reading technology related news on mainstream newspapers

hell, stop reading technology news altogether, nobody knows what they're talking about

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hell, stop reading technology news altogether, nobody knows what they're talking about

What about HN?

Who thought the title said "NSA Vulnerabilities"?

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You should go back there!

>>4

>>1
He may be talking out of his ass, but virtually all NAS's have (at minimum) a shitty closed-source web management interface that's running as root and full of holes.

Take Synology's for example, which failed to validate parameters for path normalization hacks
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-6987

… and then there was that whole arbitrary code execution thing
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-6955

Which led to a ransomware that encrypted your data and then demanded BTC to unlock it (and the decryption may or may not have worked, accounts vary).