by wwarren | Jul 24, 2018 | General
ETC Maryland has been HTTPS only for a long time now. Google has been warning of its intention to start deranking and marking sites as insecure as of today, July 24, 2018. For both business owners and web design professionals, if your host is not providing HTTPS by...
by wwarren | May 2, 2018 | Annoucements, General, Research Projects, Services
ETC Maryland has not jumped into the “managed IT” for quite a while now. My main concerns were anything cloud based. While ETC Maryland sees the market demand for network monitoring I was unable to find a solution that met my security standards. One of...
by wwarren | Apr 20, 2017 | General, Hosting, Internet, Services
There are tons and tons of companies that can host your website for you. Within the sea of hosting providers what sets ETC Maryland apart from the others? All accounts receive a free basic SSL Certificate All accounts get a free dedicated IPV6 address All accounts...
by wwarren | Apr 4, 2017 | Cloud Computing, General
In the you do not own your IOT device dept comes a tale of IOT woe. A IOT Garage Door opener has disabled a customer’s account due to a poor review and an admittedly toxic comment left by said client. Now the client is effectively locked out of his garage...
by wwarren | Apr 3, 2017 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Ransomware, Security, Windows
I posted about a system API inside of Microsoft Windows that allows OEM to put in unremovable software that resides in the UEFI of motherboards. UEFI is the new “BIOS”. The possibilities for UEFI problems have been known since at least 2012 as this...
by wwarren | Mar 13, 2017 | Cyberpower, General, Hardware, Tripp-Lite
I mentioned earlier how modern electrical grid technology that is meant to help the power companies reduce service calls and increase the reliability of the grid can also present a danger to your critical technology. I had that same technology cause a failure of an...
