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...
by wwarren | Mar 10, 2017 | General, Ransomware, Security
I saw an article about this recently and went searching for an earlier publication date. This type of thing is typical of a first response, knee-jerk reaction because somebody found a hole in your procedures and this at the time seems to be the cheapest way out....
by wwarren | Dec 1, 2016 | Annoucements, Cloud Computing, General, Google Apps, Internet, Microsoft
I have always wondered why Google always struggles to make it’s hardware and new products “stick”. It turns out Google doesn’t really want folks to be subscribed to it’s “Gsuite” accounts. Why do I say this? I just found out...
by wwarren | Nov 28, 2016 | General, Internet, Security, Security Alerts, Sophos, UTM, Vendors
*UPDATE 01\10\2017* I FINALLY got an error that calls out a file that is faulting. I started having various ipv6 sites not loading or loading very slowly. Inspection of the logs showed the following: 2017:01:10-10:19:53 etcutm httpproxy[8853]: id=”0003″...
