by wwarren | Apr 7, 2021 | Annoucements, Firewalls, Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
I do work for another firm out in California and one of the biggest clients there suddenly found their guest network offline. When the firewall was attempted to be logged into all account credentials have either been changed or deleted..locking us out of the...
by wwarren | Jan 3, 2021 | Dell, Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Hardware, Open Source, Storage
I have had a Dell R520 server here at my location for a bit now and it’s been a great upgrade for my business. In addition to providing network storage it also has been the final testbed for my new network attached storage product I recently announced. I have...
by wwarren | Jan 2, 2021 | Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, General, Hardware, Open Source, Storage, Windows, Windows 10
I had 1909 on my machine and it decided to upgrade to 20h2(mainly because i forgot to disable feature updates after some windows maintenance). Things immediately went downhill from there. I knew something was funky when it kept saying my E drive(my iscsi gamecache)...
by wwarren | Dec 4, 2020 | Annoucements, Free/TrueNAS, Hardware, Open Source
Remember this post? This has been 4 years in the making. I have tested this extensively at my office and at a clients remote location. With ransomware going nuts I am targeting this launch towards protecting against ransomware and offering an affordable, onsite...
by wwarren | Nov 29, 2020 | Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
ZDNET has a concerning article about UEFI malware found on some PC’s. According to the article this most recent UEFI infection was not the first. The Russian APT group Fancy Bear was using it back in 2018. Things like this usually means you can count on at...
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2018 | Hardware, Research Projects
It has been a while since I have been able to post about any kind of research I am doing. Right now I am figuring out just exactly how I want to build my new rack mounted PfSense firewall to replace my USG-pro-4. I want this machine to be fast enough to eventually...
