[$] An unpleasant surprise for My Book Live owners

Embedded devices need regular software updates in order to even beminimally safe on today's internet. Products that have reached their "endof life", thus are no longer being updated, are essentially ticking timebombs-it is only a matter of time before they are vulnerable toattack. That situation played out in June for owners of WesternDigital (WD) My Book Live network-attached storage (NAS) devices; what wasmeant to be a disk for home users accessible via the internet turned into a black hole when a remotecommand-execution flaw was used to delete all of the data stored there. Orso it seemed at first.