Windows 20h2 Bug Eats Partitions, TrueNAS Core Saves Data Again

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)...

ETC Maryland Officially Announces Affordable, Ransomware Resistant Network Storage for Micro and Small Businesses

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...

UEFI Being Used to House Nearly Unremovable Malware. Warned About in 2015.

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...

Research Revived and an Infrastructure Upgrade in Planning

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...

My Local Backup Strategy

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...

Spectre and Meltdown. How Susceptible Are you?

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...