The hardware-based encryption built into popular #western digital external hard disk drives has flaws that could allow attackers to recover data without knowing the user password.
A team of three security #researchers investigated how the #self-encryption feature was implemented in several popular Western Digital #my passport and #my book models. Depending on the type of microchip used for the encryption operation, they found design flaws and backdoor-like features that enable brute-force password guessing attacks or even decryption of the data without knowing the password.
