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 3, 2018 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
I am a Brunswick based webhost and I wanted to let you all know you do not have to overpay the bigger boys for many things that can be provided at a much more reasonable cost..or even for no additional cost. If you look at only the bottom line you will miss out on...
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...
by wwarren | Mar 13, 2018 | Hosting, Services
ETC Maryland has been offering free SSL certificates for nearly two years now. ETC Maryland saw quickly the need to moving to SSL as Google was already informing SEO partners of their intentions to add SSL as a major ranking signal. ETC Maryland is determined to...
by wwarren | Mar 9, 2018 | Ransomware, Security
Ransomware is now making it into mainstream television. Chicago Med(Season 2 Episode 19) has an episode where they get hit with ransomware. Unlike Hollywood though most folks who pay loose not only their money but also their data. I have never been an advocate of...
by wwarren | Feb 27, 2018 | Comcast, Fiber, Internet, Ubiquiti
November, 2017: I received an e-mail saying that Comcast has pulled fiber into this area and that their gigabit pro service was available to me as a business class customer. This is a pure fiber to the premises service that would net me 2 gigabits both up and down. ...
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...
by wwarren | Jan 4, 2018 | Annoucements
We are going to see a bunch of weirdness today as all major software vendors are patching their infrastructure against some serious hardware flaws in all CPU chips today. Your machine may say it cannot activate..certain Internet based things may be slow or not work at...
by wwarren | Jan 3, 2018 | AMD, Annoucements, Apple, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Intel
Intel is in full damage control mode about their hardware flaw….unfortunately they are trying to drag AMD down with them….however AMD is vulnerable only in its older CPU products. Their latest product, XEN(or Ryzen) is not affected as of right now. This...
by wwarren | Jan 2, 2018 | Amazon, Cloud Computing, Google Apps, Microsoft, Open Source, Security
It very well could be. right now I am seeing signs about an embargoed(aka being kept secret) serious HARDWARE security problem RE: virtualization(aka the cloud) that affects Intel processors. The amount of software patching going on is massive and even open source...
