Western Digital My Book Live - Major Hack

As I noted elsewhere, this is not good. I sure hope, once all is done and over with we don't discover that this malware exploited a vulnerability WD already knew about but failed to act accordingly - as seems to be a major factor in most security breaches in the last few years.

That is, most hacks and breaches are successful because the IT security people in these organizations already knew of the vulnerability, had the necessary patch or fix (often for months!), but - due to shear laziness and lack of proper guidance from upper management, they sat on their thumbs and neglected to install the patch or apply the fix.

If nothing else, this should be yet another warning/reminder to everyone that we must all have "multiple" backups of any and all data we don't want to lose.