by wwarren | Jun 30, 2021 | Annoucements, Hosting, Security, Service Status
ETC Maryland has services for those who want fully managed hosting to if you want to do nearly everything yourself. Let’s go through the points Wordfence raises: Backups. We do two backups per day. One is at noon and is on another server in the datacenter. ...
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 | Mar 9, 2021 | Hosting, Security, Security Alerts
A plugin for the Elementor sitebuilder has a major vulnerability that allow remote attackers to create administrative accounts without any need for authentication. The admin users can then do anything a WordPress user can do which is add or remove content, create or...
by wwarren | Jan 22, 2021 | Annoucements, FreeBSD, PFSense, Security
Right as I start building a firewall monitoring and configurations service…things change drastically. Luckily, as a smaller company I am able to be quite agile in responding. I had heard rumblings of something a couple of weeks ago…now those rumblings...
by wwarren | Dec 15, 2020 | Podcast, Security, Security Alerts
This is the first in a series of podcasts about the SolarWinds hack. As details come out I will be making more podcasts and providing links in futher posts. Hang on folks..it’s going to be a fun ride. You can download the podcast episode here. Here’s...
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...
