by wwarren | Apr 2, 2018 | Dell, Hardware, Microsoft, Ransomware, Research Projects, Security, Windows
I have not been at my computer as much and I missed the fact that March 31st was world backup day. This article on extremetech details some of the author’s backup plans. I wanted to have ransomware resistant backups at all levels so my system is a bit more...
by wwarren | Jun 20, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Dell, Dell, Hardware, Storage
With network security such a huge business it stuns me that Dell first bought dinosaur vendor EMC and is now selling most of its other “non-core” assets to others. Sonicwall is now owned by private equity firm Francisco Partners and hedge fund Elliott...
by wwarren | Nov 23, 2015 | Dell, General, Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
Dell’s stupidity is on display as Dell has inserted a base root certificate that can sign code. The really bad part is dell leaves the keys to this cert exposed in the clear so it is easy to extract the keys from the machine and use them as a man in the middle...
