by wwarren | Mar 10, 2026 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
To further enhance our hosting service value, ETC Maryland announces a new hosting plan and significant traffic upgrades to existing plans. ETC Maryland would like to announce our new VPS Nano plan. For sites that do not wish to utilize or are quickly outgrowing...
by wwarren | Mar 1, 2026 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
With so many hosting providers not giving creators and owners data security for their websites at a reasonable rate, ETC Maryland is pleased to announce all sites going forward now include not only full WordPress security management but also include the full WPMUDEV...
by wwarren | Feb 2, 2026 | Annoucements
As of February 1, ETC Maryland has implemented new rates for the services offered. Hourly consultation has been raised to $175/hour. Hosting rates have also been raised by $5/month for all services. Existing clients will be adjusted as follows. Clients who were...
by wwarren | Dec 16, 2025 | Cloud Computing, General
I just sent this to my local county council: I am a business owner here in Frederick county. I also reside in Frederick county. I send this from my business address as I feel someone from the technology industry with a contrary opinion about data centers needs to...
by wwarren | Oct 20, 2025 | Annoucements, Cloud Computing, Hosting, Services
Amazon suffered a major outage at their east coast 1 region today. This is their largest, and oldest region and has had it fair share of problems due to these two facts. I am hearing many theories at the what happened and Amazon has yet to release their analysis of...
by wwarren | Sep 8, 2025 | Security
A VPN is not a security tool. It is a remote access tool. The two are not the same. The VPN only provides a connection to the remote network that on the outside is secure, but inside that tunnel it can be as insecure as putting your critical data directly onto the...
by wwarren | Aug 22, 2025 | Hardware, HIPAA, Internet, Security, Services
My younger daughter decided to make a video of this. At a recent mixer event I received a couple of requests for a video link if there was one. I uploaded it and have the link below. If you have any questions or you wish to have ETC Maryland evaluate your...
by wwarren | Aug 22, 2025 | Security, Security Alerts
Now this is an interesting one. Windows ipv6 has a default configuration that allows for network takeover. An excerpt is below: A dormant IPv6 feature is a backdoor for Windows attackers, security researchers warn. Enabled by default, if unused and left unchecked,...
by wwarren | Aug 22, 2025 | HIPAA, Security, Security Alerts
While this story is about Microsoft copilot, many AI implementations have security issues that could be serious, especially given the fact that these issues go unreported to the clients of said AI products. This example from Microsoft is just the highest profile I...
by wwarren | Aug 8, 2025 | Security, Security Alerts
From the Bleeping Computer Article: ControlVault3 firmware vulnerabilities impacting over 100 Dell laptop models can allow attackers to bypass Windows login and install malware that persists across system reinstalls. Dell ControlVault is a hardware-based security...
