Western digital netcenter hack

Joined Sep 9, Messages I was wondering if there are any known exploits for this NAS. To start, I want to enable telnet or SSH. I know it runs linux, and has a GPL'ed firmware. Its a pretty crappy NAS in its current form it doesn't even have file level permissions , however, with some fine tuning, it could be a great product. I would like shell and FTP access to the box to start with.

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But unknown hackers are turning Western Digital My Book NAS hard drives into nightmare backup tools by compromising users' devices and then deleting all the data from them. But users worldwide are reporting that their devices have been hijacked and wiped. So far, though, victims who have lost data are simply out of luck. Register now while it's still free! Already a member?

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Students Click Here. My goal was to replace a working Western Digital GB NetCenter network hard drive and replace it with a larger hard drive. I removed the GB network drive from the Western Digital NetCenter and plugged it in the XP machine as a slave to move all the files to a larger drive. I was not able to view files but the status changed to Basic with File System unknown and not healthy. I decided to put the GB drive back into the NetCenter unit and proceed to move files over the network to a larger drive.

After booting the NetCenter unit, the drive was unrecognizable. I took the drive back out of the unit and put back into the XP machine, tried the above listed method again, still nothing. I let PTDD do its thing. Then put the drive back into netcenter and still same No Volume Defined status.