Getting to the root of the problem
Several of Seagate’s wireless hard disk drives (HDDs) contain multiple vulnerabilities, including “undocumented Telnet services” that hackers could access by using the default credentials of “root” for the username and password of a built-in user account, Cert.org reports.
Once inside, an anonymous hacker would have access to the compromised drive’s contents and “unrestricted file download capability” with wireless access. The attacker would be able to directly download files …read more
