Fri. 06/25 – Some Western Digital NAS Devices Are Getting Ill (matic?)

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🗓️ 25 June 2021

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Fri. 06/25 – Some Western Digital NAS Devices Are Getting Ill (matic?) Some Western Digital NAS devices are getting ill (matic). A breakdown of the 5 or 6 big tech antitrust bills that just passed House committees. Windows 11 is free, but what if your device can’t run it? Also, more on Microsoft’s anti-Apple posturing. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: AirMedCareNetwork.com/tech offer code TECH Cybereason.com Links: WD My Book NAS devices are being remotely wiped clean worldwide (Bleeping Computer) Big Tech edges closer to break up after deeply unhinged markup (The Verge) Satya Nadella’s closing Windows 11 remarks were a direct shot across Apple’s bow (The Verge) Windows 11 is free, but your CPU might not be officially supported (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: What Is Blue Box? A Vast Conspiracy Grips the Video Game World (Bloomberg) A very brief history of every Google messaging app (The Verge) The Boy Who Could DeFi: Meet the 13-Year-Old Who Built a $7M Money Manager on Ethereum (Decrypt) How Roku used the Netflix playbook to beat bigger players and rule streaming video (CNBC) Can a $110 Million Helmet Unlock the Secrets of the Mind? (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, June 25th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.6	Some Western Digital Network attached storage devices are getting ill,
0:14.8	Maddick, a breakdown of the big five or six tech antitrust bills that just passed House
0:20.5	committees.
0:21.5	Windows 11 is free, but what if your device can't run it?
0:24.2	Also more on Microsoft's anti-apple posturing and of course the weekend long read
0:28.7	suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:41.0	Western Digital says some my book live devices are being compromised by malware which leads to a factory reset erasing all data, which you know is not a good
0:47.0	thing for a NOS device, but Western Digital says it hasn't been hacked.
0:53.1	Quoting bleeping computer.
0:55.1	W.D. My book is a network attached storage device
0:58.8	that looks like a small vertical book
1:00.7	that you can stand on your desk.
1:02.4	The W.D. My Book Live app allows
1:04.7	owners to access their files and manage their devices remotely even if the
1:08.4	NAS is behind a firewall or router. Today, W.D. My book owners worldwide suddenly found that all of their
1:15.1	files were mysteriously deleted and they could no longer log into the device
1:18.8	via a browser or an app. When they attempted to log in via the web dashboard, the device stated that they had an
1:25.1	invalid password. I have a W.D. My book live connected to my home land and worked fine for years.
1:32.1	I have just found that somehow all the data on it is
1:35.1	gone today while the directories seem there but empty. Previously the 2 terabyte
1:40.6	volume was almost full but now it shows full capacity
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