Seagate Wireless Drives Security Flaw

[Jared]

Looks like Seagate's budget cuts have struck again. This time it's a security bug that allows root access to the storage via WiFi and can even allow the attackers to download files. If you've got one of these, make sure you upgrade the firmware.

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903500

To quote their warning:

Under a default configuration, Seagate wireless hard-drives provides an unrestricted file download capability to anonymous attackers with wireless access to the device. An attacker can directly download files from anywhere on the filesystem.