I Do Hope No One Was Using Western Digital's My Cloud Service

[DontAsk]

Google it.

 

[WaveJumper]

Oh dear just had a look, have you lost any data there seems to be very little "detail" being supplied by WD

 

[estwig]

No, but Virgin are messing with me something wicked today.................

Virgin Media internet down again for thousands

The firm apologises after customers lose service for the second time in one day.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[WaveJumper]

About as good as his rocket company which went into chapter 11 then

 

[Nico Albrecht]

It's not surprising that QNAP was hit last year and Synology will likely follow suit. Anyone using such services should expect to experience a data breach or face significant losses.

If you want to access data securely, use a router with a VPN tunnel. If you care about internet security, at the very least, use a pfsense firewall on site.

All these network-attached storage (NAS) devices from QNAP, WD, and Synology use free services via servers to allow data access. When you buy a product and don't pay for its maintenance, hacks like these are bound to happen. No one will work for free, so why would you expect them to care about security?

If you care about security, you need to pay for it and have proper defense layers if you want your data remotely accessible. Maintaining security is becoming increasingly complex and expensive, so running a product like that for years without investing in extra security measures will make you vulnerable to attacks. Moreover, in my opinion, MyCloud home is the worst product I've come across in the last decade.

In my opinion, individuals should be required to obtain a license, which includes proper training, in order to access the internet. Just as I wouldn't give a gun to a monkey and expect everything to go smoothly, people should either acquire the necessary skills to use the internet or avoid it altogether.

 

[KM-Tiger]

No, but Virgin are messing with me something wicked today.................

So a normal day on Virgin then.

 

[DontAsk]

And I see Google, without any warning whatsoever, applied a 5 million file limit to Google Drive, completly screwing some businesses.

I'll say it again, paraphrasing a little this time, "If you do not control the server, you do not control the data".

 

[estwig]

So a normal day on Virgin then.

I'm not a fan by any means, they have been solid for me for many years, things like this are annoying but rare.

I will add I don't use their router....Yuck!

 

[IanSuth]

I'm not a fan by any means, they have been solid for me for many years, things like this are annoying but rare.

I will add I don't use their router....Yuck!

I am stuck with them. Unless i want to pay for a totally new BT line from the cabinet the only line into the house is a Virgin one from their fibre cabinet and it has been that way since i moved in in 2000 - previous owner removed BT line whilst building extension.

 

[IanSuth]

It's not surprising that QNAP was hit last year and Synology will likely follow suit. Anyone using such services should expect to experience a data breach or face significant losses.

If you want to access data securely, use a router with a VPN tunnel. If you care about internet security, at the very least, use a pfsense firewall on site.

All these network-attached storage (NAS) devices from QNAP, WD, and Synology use free services via servers to allow data access. When you buy a product and don't pay for its maintenance, hacks like these are bound to happen. No one will work for free, so why would you expect them to care about security?

If you care about security, you need to pay for it and have proper defense layers if you want your data remotely accessible. Maintaining security is becoming increasingly complex and expensive, so running a product like that for years without investing in extra security measures will make you vulnerable to attacks. Moreover, in my opinion, MyCloud home is the worst product I've come across in the last decade.

In my opinion, individuals should be required to obtain a license, which includes proper training, in order to access the internet. Just as I wouldn't give a gun to a monkey and expect everything to go smoothly, people should either acquire the necessary skills to use the internet or avoid it altogether.

Way way back I was dealing with Arcadia as it tried to escape the Connor/Seagate merger. They had written backupexec and were trying to be hived off from Conner but failed and became a Seagate subsidiary (Seagate software), they then renamed as Veritas and I put in the first of their new S/W Engineers to build the Linux versions (other than those they gained from the expiry of SCO which is why their s/w engineering div was based in Watford whilst the rest of the company was in Reading). they were then bought by Symantec and then demerged and have gone back to being Veritas.

I am amazed anyone has any track on who owns what IP and what is licenced/hosted where and how in the data backup industry

 

[Nico Albrecht]

who owns what IP and what is licenced/hosted

Regarding WD MyCloud, it has been reported that since last year, they have been running their portal on AWS. As there have been no reports of widespread outages on AWS, it is assumed that the issue is with what WD has built on AWS, rather than the underlying infrastructure.

Qnap, on the other hand, has become concerning as it can no longer be air-gapped, and instead needs to call out to the Qnap server to allow for basic services to run. If the ports are blocked, even dashboard access becomes impossible. This development is not ideal.

Synology is also not without its problems, as it is considered to be a tempting target for hackers. Joining their forum reveals that one of their hot topics is how to open ports in the router firewall to allow services to reach the NAS, including email servers and CCTV. This is extremely worrying and a potential feast for hackers.

 

[Trundle]

And I see Google, without any warning whatsoever, applied a 5 million file limit to Google Drive, completly screwing some businesses.

I'll say it again, paraphrasing a little this time, "If you do not control the server, you do not control the data".

Alternatively: your data in the cloud is just your data on someone elses computer!

 

[Nico Albrecht]

applied a 5 million file limit to Google Drive

Common Google Drive is a business product and a 5 million file limit is very generous in comparison to Microsoft and Amazon. Which business would store even 5 million single files in 1 google drive.

It makes no sense even from a performance point to.

Even if this would be the case a quick auto archive compression would get your file count down and also offer the option of encrypting your data as archive.

For power users Google has google drive enterprise with no 5 million limitation but of course it cost more money.

The only way you would create so many files as a regular business user is if you run some sort of ghetto server dumping data into that google drive for the other 99.99% of google drive users this was never a problem to start of with.