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I have no idea how WesternDigital managed to make their UPS client configuration tool so … annoying that despite basically running NUT I can’t get it to agree to use my real NUT server.
Their config tool scans the NUT server for a set of particular names (fine, I can provide those), but then apparently also expects some magic strings in the answer that short of reverse engineering their 32-bit ARM I can’t figure out for the life of it.
1/n #MyCloud
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The Mature Phone Photo Backup Landscape
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany years ago, if I took photos with a nokia phone I had to sync them via a memory card. With the arrival of the Android Nexus on and the Apple iPhone our digital photography habits changed. With time we would leave our cameras at home, and carry our mobile phones, and photograph paries and hikes with these.
In the process we had two apps to backup. Google Photos and iPhoto. Both of these were optimal for whether we were on iOS or Android. For a while this was fine because they automatically backed up to our computers. With time though, the backup was more and more cloud centric, to the point where our photos were now either on iCloud or Google Photos.
iCloud and Google One
People like me, of course, had a backup in iCloud and Google Photos. For a considerable amount of time Google Photos had a counter that increased every day so storage felt unlimited, until they decided to charge for storage. By then emmigrating from their cloud solutions was complicated by the time it would take to download the data, but also because with Google Takeout the photo data was separated from the photo files. Migrating would now be a hassle but that is a topic for another post.
Telecom Operators
Today we have a multitude of photo backup solutions. Some are provided by our telecom operator. MyCloud is provided by Swisscom for example. Infomaniak has both the kDrive app, if you want to backup with their own tool, or you can setup a Nextcloud instance that you host via their 'self-hosting' offerings.
Self-Hosting
NextCloud can also be self-hosted on a Pi, personal laptop or other but in my experience it can be fragile.
Immich and Photoprism are two interesting alternatives. Immich feels a lot like Google Photos and Photoprism is similar. Photoprism is developed in the EU.
There are other options but I mention two of the key players.
Flickr
If we think laterally then Flickr is another option. For around 8 CHF per month you can backup an unlimited amount of photos, and you can then choose to make some of them public and share them to groups.
Since this is a community of photographers, rather than influencers quality is higher, and the focus is on landscapes, urban views, people and more. This is an expensive option that fills a niche that other apps do not fill.
Google Photos and Photos
The key difference between Google Photos, Photos, on MacOS and iOS and third party options such as Kdrive, immich and others is that they usually do not run in the background automatically. with Google Photos and Photos as soon as you take a photo it is backed up. With almost every other app you need to open the app, and keep it open until uploading ends.
With Immich and Photoprism I kept the apps open, on a specific screen to backup years of photos. This could take the entire night. That's why iCloud is a good parachute, until you've backed up to third party solutions.
The Temporarily Free Trap
iCloud, Google Photos and MyCloud were all free for long enough for us to store photos with them, and when they became paying we had to choose between abandoning photos or paying for their service. That's why Immich and Kdrive are interesting options. Immich is local, and kDrive can be backed up locally with ease.
And Finally
For me the ideal setup includes Immich, Kdrive and iCloud if you're on iOS. Immich is the primary photo app, used to backup and catalogue photos. Kdrive is excellent as an offsite backup, but it also has the advantage of automatically backing up to a hard drive in my home. If I see a cheaper contract I can easily slide to that one within minutes, in theory.
Finally icloud is the parachute. As soon as photos are backed up to Immich and Kdrive they can be deleted from the phone, saving space.
#Google #icloud #immich #kdrive #MyCloud #NextCloud #photoprism #selfHosting -
The Mature Phone Photo Backup Landscape
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany years ago, if I took photos with a nokia phone I had to sync them via a memory card. With the arrival of the Android Nexus on and the Apple iPhone our digital photography habits changed. With time we would leave our cameras at home, and carry our mobile phones, and photograph paries and hikes with these.
In the process we had two apps to backup. Google Photos and iPhoto. Both of these were optimal for whether we were on iOS or Android. For a while this was fine because they automatically backed up to our computers. With time though, the backup was more and more cloud centric, to the point where our photos were now either on iCloud or Google Photos.
iCloud and Google One
People like me, of course, had a backup in iCloud and Google Photos. For a considerable amount of time Google Photos had a counter that increased every day so storage felt unlimited, until they decided to charge for storage. By then emmigrating from their cloud solutions was complicated by the time it would take to download the data, but also because with Google Takeout the photo data was separated from the photo files. Migrating would now be a hassle but that is a topic for another post.
Telecom Operators
Today we have a multitude of photo backup solutions. Some are provided by our telecom operator. MyCloud is provided by Swisscom for example. Infomaniak has both the kDrive app, if you want to backup with their own tool, or you can setup a Nextcloud instance that you host via their 'self-hosting' offerings.
Self-Hosting
NextCloud can also be self-hosted on a Pi, personal laptop or other but in my experience it can be fragile.
Immich and Photoprism are two interesting alternatives. Immich feels a lot like Google Photos and Photoprism is similar. Photoprism is developed in the EU.
There are other options but I mention two of the key players.
Flickr
If we think laterally then Flickr is another option. For around 8 CHF per month you can backup an unlimited amount of photos, and you can then choose to make some of them public and share them to groups.
Since this is a community of photographers, rather than influencers quality is higher, and the focus is on landscapes, urban views, people and more. This is an expensive option that fills a niche that other apps do not fill.
Google Photos and Photos
The key difference between Google Photos, Photos, on MacOS and iOS and third party options such as Kdrive, immich and others is that they usually do not run in the background automatically. with Google Photos and Photos as soon as you take a photo it is backed up. With almost every other app you need to open the app, and keep it open until uploading ends.
With Immich and Photoprism I kept the apps open, on a specific screen to backup years of photos. This could take the entire night. That's why iCloud is a good parachute, until you've backed up to third party solutions.
The Temporarily Free Trap
iCloud, Google Photos and MyCloud were all free for long enough for us to store photos with them, and when they became paying we had to choose between abandoning photos or paying for their service. That's why Immich and Kdrive are interesting options. Immich is local, and kDrive can be backed up locally with ease.
And Finally
For me the ideal setup includes Immich, Kdrive and iCloud if you're on iOS. Immich is the primary photo app, used to backup and catalogue photos. Kdrive is excellent as an offsite backup, but it also has the advantage of automatically backing up to a hard drive in my home. If I see a cheaper contract I can easily slide to that one within minutes, in theory.
Finally icloud is the parachute. As soon as photos are backed up to Immich and Kdrive they can be deleted from the phone, saving space.
#Google #icloud #immich #kdrive #MyCloud #NextCloud #photoprism #selfHosting -
Technically, it's not a vuln because if you enable SSH via the supported route then you only get a root shell and there's no way to create low priv'd SSH users, but since there's no ability to persistently fix that issue, I ended up abusing IPC to write to the persistent storage a scheduled job which will give me a low priv'd SSH user 🤡.
https://gist.github.com/timb-machine/a3b2d27adcbbed34455e78f845198392
It just so happens that /if/ you did have a low priv'd SSH user, then the IPC would enable you to get root.
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Western Digital: Zugriff auf lokale "My Cloud"-Daten trotz Dienstausfall möglich | Security https://www.heise.de/news/My-Cloud-Zugriff-auf-lokale-Daten-trotz-Dienstausfall-bei-Western-Digital-8927131.html #Ransomware #Malware #WesternDigital #MyCloud #CyberCrime #Cloud #CloudStorage
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Nach einem Sicherheitsvorfall bei #WesternDigital gibt es jetzt erste gute Nachrichten für #MyCloud-Nutzer, die nicht auf ihre Daten zugreifen konnten: https://winfuture.de/news,135581.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
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@CKsTechNews and Western Digital’s #MyCloud down since approx beginning of April smells like #ransomware attack as well. #wd
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Western Digital confirms a Cyber Attack after a Security Breach and takes My Cloud NAS Service Down.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/4/my-cloud-nas-service-is-down-after-a-cyber-attack-to-western-digital/ -
Well, lovely... #cloud #storage service from Western Digital, Western Digital #MyCloud, apparently compromised and locked. #cybersecurity #WD #WesternDigital https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/users-fume-after-my-cloud-network-breach-locks-them-out-of-their-data/?utm_brand=ars
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Doesn't seem a good time for big cloud storage options.
Western Digital's My Cloud goes down after hack https://www.pcworld.com/article/1681254/western-digitals-my-cloud-goes-down-after-hack.html
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Users fume after My Cloud network breach locks them out of their data
Users of the #WesternDigital #MyCloud service are fuming after a network #breach has locked them out of their data for more than 24 hours and has put company-handled information into the hands of currently unknown hackers.
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"My Cloud" down: Western Digital meldet "Netzwerk-Sicherheitsvorfall" | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Western-Digital-meldet-Netzwerk-Sicherheitsvorfall-8515140.html #Hacking #CyberCrime #WesternDigital #MyCloud
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Users fume after My Cloud network breach locks them out of their data - Enlarge (credit: Western Digital)
Users of the Western Digital... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1928711 #westerndigital #networkbreach #datatheft #mycloud #biz #outage
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I'm contemplating whether to purchase a simple #NAS for home. Mostly for photo storage and backups.
I can get my hands on either #WD #MyCloud Home or WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra with quite a big discount. Does anyone have experience with those and could recommend (or advise against) any of those two?
I like how slim and cheap the Home is, but I don't like it having only one hard drive with no RAID possible. But the Ultra is twice the price 🙈
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Es gibt ein wichtiges Sicherheitsupdate für verschiedene NAS-Modelle von Western Digital.
Western Digital schließt Root-Schadcode-Lücke in My-Cloud-Netzwerkspeichern -
Mehrere NAS-Modelle der My-Cloud-Serie bekommen bald keine Sicherheitsupdates mehr. Diese Geräte sollten nicht mehr am Internet hängen.
Sicherheitsrisiko: Support für einige NAS-Systeme von Western Digital läuft aus -
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Now that's some great news!
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Today i lost all my contacts from my phone due to a @gmail problem??? But thanks to my @Nextclouders backup contacts i recovered them. #mycloud
https://twitter.com/Tsartsanis/status/1042816337960230913 -
Here's another reason to pick #opensoure products: WD #MyCloud devices were 'protected' by the password "abc12345cba". Better take them offline right now!
Be smart, run a #private cloud solution that has undergone some #public scrutiny. #powerofcommunity
https://twitter.com/heisec/status/949343771371720704 …pic.twitter.com/dTSMDwFPC0 #nextcloud -
Oh good
#WesternDigital #MyCloud drives come with a back door and remote login vuln
https://www.techspot.com/news/72612-western-digital-cloud-drives-have-built-backdoor.html
“allowing for unrestricted root access”
“No fix has been issued to date”
“...hard coded backdoor with credentials that cannot be changed...”
Because why the hell not 🙄
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Turns out WD #MyCloud devices were 'protected' by the password "abc12345cba".
Better take them offline right now.
And consider running a private cloud solution that has undergone some public scrutiny. #opensource https://twitter.com/heisec/status/949343771371720704 … #nextcloud
