by wwarren | Jan 4, 2018 | Amazon, Annoucements, Cloud Computing, Google Apps, Hardware, Microsoft, Open Source, Research Projects, Security, Security Alerts
There’s a ton of crap running around about these vulnerabilities. This video talks about the vulnerabilities on a user level and gives some background on exactly where the problem lies and much you should worry. A technical paper on this is upcoming. This is...
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 | Jan 2, 2018 | Amazon, Cloud Computing, Google Apps, Microsoft, Open Source, Security
It very well could be. right now I am seeing signs about an embargoed(aka being kept secret) serious HARDWARE security problem RE: virtualization(aka the cloud) that affects Intel processors. The amount of software patching going on is massive and even open source...
by wwarren | Nov 17, 2017 | Amazon, Cloud Computing, Internet, IOT, Security
Amazon Key IMO is a bad idea. The fact that it is based on IOT makes it worse. The very concept of you give someone access to your house with no other controls…there’s a camera to watch them but a camera will not stop anyone from doing anything...
by wwarren | Nov 8, 2017 | Cloud Computing
Logitech is going to brick their cloud IOT devices under the Harmony Link brand with a software update in March 2018. Your remedy? Logitech gives you a discount on their newest Harmony Hub devices.
by wwarren | Nov 6, 2017 | Cloud Computing, Internet
I started getting multiple calls about issues on Comcast this afternoon. My initial research showed it was not an IP issue, however dns was not responding on the Comcast network. Comcast has had DNS outages before. I tested my network by switching to Google DNS...
