[SOLVED] Convert WD My Book Live to USB Drive?

[box o rocks]

My old WD NAS has been deemed not secure due to reasons I don't fully understand, and there have been no new firmware updates in years. But it has a perfectly good HDD and contains useful data I'd like to access. Is there any way to convert it to a USB drive? It only has a single I/O port on its case; an Ethernet LAN port. Is it possible to somehow use the NAS as a simple usb drive?
https://ibb.co/znZfVMy

 

[USAFRet]

My old WD NAS has been deemed not secure due to reasons I don't fully understand, and there have been no new firmware updates in years. But it has a perfectly good HDD and contains useful data I'd like to access. Is there any way to convert it to a USB drive? It only has a single I/O port on its case; an Ethernet LAN port. Is it possible to somehow use the NAS as a simple usb drive?
https://ibb.co/znZfVMy

Copy ALL the data off to some other drive.
Take the drive out of the WD enclosure.
Put it in some other USB enclosure.
Reformat the drive.
Copy the data back to it.


What is telling you 'not secure'?

 

[fzabkar]

I seem to recall that these boxes had a security flaw that allowed remote attackers to perform a factory reset. I believe that WD has not addressed this problem.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ces-are-being-remotely-wiped-clean-worldwide/

 

[box o rocks]

I seem to recall that these boxes had a security flaw that allowed remote attackers to perform a factory reset. I believe that WD has not addressed this problem.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ces-are-being-remotely-wiped-clean-worldwide/

Yes. Exactly. The other problem was that I could never set the time/date correctly. It seemed to be limited to 2020 and earlier.