WD My Book Live Mass Wipe: The EOL IoT Disaster
Tens of thousands of abandoned Western Digital NAS drives got factory-reset by strangers through a decade-old unpatched flaw. The definitive end-of-life IoT case study.
Wyze Camera Flaw: 13,000 Strangers Through One Caching Hole
Two February 2024 vulnerabilities let Wyze app users briefly see thumbnails and live feeds of strangers’ cameras — a cache-key failure amplified by a three-year-old flaw resurfacing in redesigned hardware. This account covers the date-based cache-key bug, the 13,000 affected users, the nine-hour fleet update, and the uncomfortable questions about budget-camera security engineering when the same vendor has now repeated the vulnerability class.
Verkada Camera Breach: 150,000 Feeds Behind One Credential
Teenage hackers turned one exposed Verkada dev server into super-admin access over ~150,000 customer cameras — hospitals, jails, Tesla, Cloudflare. The third-party camera risk case that rewrote vendor security questionnaires.
Cyber Resilience Act CE mark circuit board obligations
The Cyber Resilience Act: Security Is the Product Now
From 2027 connected products without CRA-backed security lose the CE mark and the EU market. EN 303 645 already draws the floor: no default passwords, disclosure policy, update transparency. The real work is turning security into a documented lifecycle — threat models, SBOMs, tested updates — instead of a checkbox before the ceremony.