by wwarren | Nov 27, 2017 | Government Regulations, Internet, Net Neutrality
I have run a small business myself and I can tell you this is 100% true. There are folks online like Leo Laporte of Twit.tv who obviously has no idea about how networking operates because I routinely have heard him say the bits are free. That’s absolutely...
by wwarren | Nov 26, 2017 | AMD, Hardware, Intel, Security, Security Alerts
Every machine Intel has shipped from 2007 to present has had this below firmware..below the operating system thing in it. All Intel CPU’s use the ME to boot at first..then the bios takes over..then the OS. It is too bad it tool this long to come out. Honestly,...
by wwarren | Nov 21, 2017 | AMD, Hardware, Intel, Security
AMD is now releasing their Ryzen Pro cpu offerings for businesses. AMD is claiming their “management” solution is more secure than IntelME. Given the extremely low bar set by IntelME that’s not hard to accomplish. I have not had the time to...
by wwarren | Nov 19, 2017 | Annoucements, Security
As if the Minix OS that runs on the chipset of ALL Intel processors isn’t enough…it has now been shown that you do not even need any complicated steps to get to the IntelMe engine. You can now access JTAG over ANY PCH(southbridge) and it is called...
by wwarren | Nov 17, 2017 | Amazon, Cloud Computing, Internet, IOT, Security
Amazon Key IMO is a bad idea. The fact that it is based on IOT makes it worse. The very concept of you give someone access to your house with no other controls…there’s a camera to watch them but a camera will not stop anyone from doing anything...
by wwarren | Nov 14, 2017 | Apple, Hardware, Security, Security Alerts, Smartphone, Tablets
We all know google mines everything..that’s been well established by Google themselves. We knew Apple mined our data and “keeps it private”. I always called BS on their privacy stance…Here’s the proof:...
by wwarren | Nov 8, 2017 | Cloud Computing
Logitech is going to brick their cloud IOT devices under the Harmony Link brand with a software update in March 2018. Your remedy? Logitech gives you a discount on their newest Harmony Hub devices.
by wwarren | Nov 8, 2017 | Security
The instant I saw folks start pandering the absurd theory that China or Russia had financed this attack I knew it was bogus. The problem was a well-known and well published vulnerability in their website that their site(and many other larger websites) used called...
by wwarren | Nov 6, 2017 | Cloud Computing, Internet
I started getting multiple calls about issues on Comcast this afternoon. My initial research showed it was not an IP issue, however dns was not responding on the Comcast network. Comcast has had DNS outages before. I tested my network by switching to Google DNS...
by wwarren | Nov 6, 2017 | AMD, Hardware, Intel
I heard about this more than a year ago. This is one I wanted to sit back on and watch. Sure enough, after many years of futility, Intel has finally decided to stop torturing us with their craptacular graphics drivers that never fully worked and have decided to...
