by wwarren | Sep 26, 2016 | Cloud Computing, DDOS, Internet, IOT, Security
I have been watching the saga of security blogger Brian Krebs and his krebsonsecurity blog. He has had the benefit of high powered DDOS protection from Prolexic which is an Akamai subsidiary. Krebs has for a long time now been able to infiltrate and report on the...
by wwarren | Sep 22, 2016 | Annoucements
As noted in my earlier post ETC Maryland has been building and is deploying a new virtualized environment to properly evaluate the flood of new security products coming out from multiple vendors. The platform consists of a primary Hyper-V host, a primary VmWare host,...
by wwarren | Sep 20, 2016 | Hosting, Internet, Services
I just had an interesting conversation with my web design partner Lori Curley of Curley Marketing. Third party analytics have gotten caught in the ad blocking drag net. This means the numbers form third party apps like Google Analytics and Clicky analytics can be...
by wwarren | Sep 14, 2016 | General, Internet, Security, Security Alerts
AdBlockPlus now means we will blocks ads PLUS give you ads folks pay them to allow. I saw the initial link at hackernews but the full story is on theverge. A couple of years ago I heard that the company behind ADB+ wanted to start allowing certain ads through for...
by wwarren | Sep 5, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Microsoft, Office 365, Windows, Windows 10, Windows365
I have been mistrustful of Microsoft even since Windows 10 started coming out. The constant Windows as a service mentions and the nearly illegal and almost malware like campaign to get Windows 10 everywhere really had me not liking the entire Windows 10 ecosystem....
