by wwarren | Jan 4, 2018 | Annoucements
We are going to see a bunch of weirdness today as all major software vendors are patching their infrastructure against some serious hardware flaws in all CPU chips today. Your machine may say it cannot activate..certain Internet based things may be slow or not work at...
by wwarren | Jan 3, 2018 | AMD, Annoucements, Apple, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel
Intel is in full damage control mode about their hardware flaw….unfortunately they are trying to drag AMD down with them….however AMD is vulnerable only in its older CPU products. Their latest product, XEN(or Ryzen) is not affected as of right now. This...
by wwarren | Nov 19, 2017 | Annoucements, Security
As if the Minix OS that runs on the chipset of ALL Intel processors isn’t enough…it has now been shown that you do not even need any complicated steps to get to the IntelMe engine. You can now access JTAG over ANY PCH(southbridge) and it is called...
by wwarren | Oct 17, 2017 | Annoucements, Security, Security Alerts, WIFI
*UPDATE* It turns out Linux is especially vulnerable to this vulnerability. this means Android is especially vulnerable. Linux(and by extension Android) can be tricked into using a zero encryption key which means the attacker can easily watch all traffic on that...
by wwarren | Jun 19, 2017 | Annoucements, Hosting, Internet, Ransomware, Security, Services
This is unfortunate. I do not wish this type of disaster on anybody. ANY operating system is vulnerable to ransomware…yes even Apple. This is why I am a big proponent of ransomware resistant backups. ETC Maryland’s web hosting service has superior data...
by wwarren | May 16, 2017 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
ETC Maryland continues to enhance its data retention capabilities for all hosting accounts. ETC Maryland has now added a third backup for all web hosting accounts. Every night the webservers send a backup to an on premise server inside the datacenter for quick...
