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Critical D-Link Security Flaws Leaves Thousands Of These Storage Devices Vulnerable To Hacks

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End-of-life hardware can be quite the problem at times, even crashing back into Earth’s atmosphere at supersonic speeds for that matter. Of course, we wouldn’t expect such travesties happening with the hardware you keep in your basement, or that NAS you tucked away your closet. However, older tech gear can have serious security vulnerabilities that might not get patched due to its end-of-life status with the manufacturer. This is precisely what some D-Link networked attached storage (NAS) owners are finding out after a critical vulnerability was discovered, affecting up to 10s of thousands of devices still connected to the internet.

Roughly two weeks ago, researchers discovered a chain of vulnerabilities in several D-Link NAS devices including “DNS-340L, DNS-320L, DNS-327L, and DNS-325, among others.” The issues live with nas_sharing.cgi, which has a backdoor thanks to hardcoded credentials and command injection through the system parameter. These combined would allow for arbitrary code execution on the afflicted devices, allowing an attacker access to information, denial of service, or otherwise.

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According to the researchers with NetSecFish, up to 92,000 D-Link devices are exposed to the internet and vulnerable to attackers. Shodan shows that there are significantly fewer exposed devices and fewer still that are tagged as end-of-life. Regardless, in response to the vulnerabilities, D-Link posted a notice explaining that the “exploit affects a legacy D-Link products and all hardware revisions, which have reached their End of Life (“EOL”)/End of Service Life (“EOS”) Life-Cycle.” As such, the recommendation for affected systems is to retire or replace them, as there will not be an update coming from the company.

Of course, you can also always ensure that the NAS devices are not exposed to the internet and simply use them internally, but there’s no guarantee that your data is safe. Thus, we would also recommend upgrading your storage server to something more current (16TB Buffalo NAS), to help prevent these types of security issues.

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IT leaders think immutable data storage is an insurance policy against ransomware

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IT leaders consider immutable storage as a must-have in the fight against cyberattacks, according to Scality.

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Ransomware threats are now understood by organizations to be inevitable. Reports show 1 in 4 organizations that pay a ransom never get their data back, and just 16% are able to recover without paying a ransom.

This reinforces immutable data storage’s role as an essential last line of defense within a cybersecurity toolkit. With this type of storage, data cannot be deleted or modified once written, increasing data safety and ensuring organizations have the power to restore data with 100% accuracy in the event of a breach.

94% of IT leaders either already rely on such data storage or plan to implement it within the next 12 months, and an additional 2% plan to deploy it within the next three years.

69% consider this data storage essential to their corporate cybersecurity, and only 12% of those who deployed immutable data storage say it is not essential.

Vertical market and regional nuances

Comparisons among IT leaders surveyed across vertical industries and specific countries reveal many notable differences.

Vertical market

Manufacturing organizations (95%) are most likely to deploy immutable storage, and 84% consider it essential to their corporate cybersecurity. Financial services firms (74%) report the lowest reliance on this storage, and 60% say it’s essential to their corporate cybersecurity.

Regional

A majority of IT leaders across all regions currently use or plan to use immutable data storage: The US has the highest level of current or planned deployments, with 98% of respondents either having implemented it or planning to do so within the next year. This is followed by France at 96%, Germany at 94% and the UK at 85%.

While a relatively low number (12%) of IT leaders worldwide who currently use immutable data storage do not regard it as “essential” to their cybersecurity strategy, a larger percentage resides in the UK: 24% of UK respondents have deployed it but say it is not essential to their cybersecurity, compared to 11% in France, 9% in the US and 6% in Germany.

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Mid-West Data Depot offers safe, convenient server data backup storage

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With the advent of computers came the need to store information. Nearly every business of every size has countless gigabytes of data related to their operations and their customers. Against the landscape of constant threats from computer viruses and cyber-attackers, data backups have become a big concern.

In the data industry, best practices call for following a 3-2-1 backup strategy; three copies of your data, using two different types of media, and one copy is stored offsite. That’s where Mid-West Data Depot comes in.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
The new service offered by media company Mid-West Family South Bend makes perfect sense: Companies need a safe place to store their data backups. Mid-West Data Depot is literally located inside a tornado shelter in South Bend that has redundant power supplies, four huge pipelines to the internet, security, and plenty of rack space for computer servers.

Data Depot site manager Bill Gamble said after you consider putting the right infrastructure in place, the business is straightforward.

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“It’s a place to store your data offsite. When we bought this building, it was already a data storage facility. Thick walls. No windows. We affectionately call it The Bunker. If there’s a disaster, this is where you want your data to be.”

STORED DATA IS SAFE DATA
Gamble said offsite data storage is growing in popularity.

“Data that isn’t backed up can be lost forever due to any number of issues. Our infrastructure means we’ll never lose power, we have reliable and redundant network connections, and there’s no weather that can compromise The Bunker. It’s that simple.”

Gamble points out that 43 percent of cyber incursions annually target small businesses. He adds that of those businesses, 46 percent have fewer than 1,000 employees.

“The scary thing is everyone’s going to get hacked eventually. What’s sad is that 70 percent of small businesses that suffer a catastrophic data breach close within a year. If you own a business, just ask your insurance agent if you can get a discount because you have an offsite backup.”

A LOCAL DATA DEPOT
One of the differentiators Gamble points to is…

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AI, Hybrid Cloud, Ransomware Detection, and the Enduring Role of Hard Disk Drives in Data Storage Evolution

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Scality, a global leader in reliable, secure, and sustainable data storage software, shared its annual data storage predictions for 2024. With the use of generative AI skyrocketing and cyberattacks continuing to infect organizations, ongoing demands to decrease IT complexity with secure, efficient solutions will dominate IT budgets into the new year. In addition, perennial data storage management challenges — growing data volumes, tight budgets, skills shortages, complicated IT installations, and increasing cyber threats — will persist.

While these are standard assumptions, this year, Scality focused its predictions on the ongoing conversations led by customers and thought leaders in the data storage industry.

Giorgio Regni, CTO at Scality, said, “We’ve had some interesting industry debates with thought leaders this past year, including the potential death of the hard disk drive (HDD), the role on-premises data storage can play to help advance data management and AI, and, finally, what it really takes to protect data from ransomware. This year’s predictions play off all of these themes.”

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AIThority Predictions Series 2024 bannerHDDs will live on, despite predictions of a premature death
Some all-flash vendors prognosticate the end of spinning disk (HDD) media in the coming years. While flash media and solid state drives (SSDs) have clear benefits when it comes to latency, are making major strides in density, and the cost per GB is declining, we see HDDs holding a 3-5x density/cost advantage over high-density SSDs through 2028.

Therefore, the current call for HDD end-of-life is akin to the tape-is-dead arguments from 20 years ago. In a similar way, HDDs will likely survive for the foreseeable future as they continue to provide workload-specific value.  

End users will discover the value of unstructured data for AI
The meteoric rise of large language models (LLMs) over the past year highlights the incredible potential they hold for organizations of all sizes and industries. They primarily leverage structured, or text-based, training data. In the coming year, businesses will discover the value of their vast troves…

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