by wwarren | May 16, 2017 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
ETC Maryland continues to enhance its data retention capabilities for all hosting accounts. ETC Maryland has now added a third backup for all web hosting accounts. Every night the webservers send a backup to an on premise server inside the datacenter for quick...
by wwarren | May 13, 2017 | Internet, Ransomware, Security, Security Alerts
Ok the news is on fire with news of a massive malware attack. This malware is called ransomware. I have been talking about ransomware since early last year and I have been talking about how to not get yourself infected since 2010. When I started this company I had...
by wwarren | Apr 22, 2017 | Hosting, Internet, Services
I got a call from a friend that I had not been in contact with for quite some time. He asked if I could help him with his website. After a good conversation on the phone it turns out what he really needed help with was his server that ran the website. He had...
by wwarren | Apr 20, 2017 | General, Hosting, Internet, Services
There are tons and tons of companies that can host your website for you. Within the sea of hosting providers what sets ETC Maryland apart from the others? All accounts receive a free basic SSL Certificate All accounts get a free dedicated IPV6 address All accounts...
by wwarren | Apr 4, 2017 | Cloud Computing, General
In the you do not own your IOT device dept comes a tale of IOT woe. A IOT Garage Door opener has disabled a customer’s account due to a poor review and an admittedly toxic comment left by said client. Now the client is effectively locked out of his garage...
by wwarren | Apr 3, 2017 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Ransomware, Security, Windows
I posted about a system API inside of Microsoft Windows that allows OEM to put in unremovable software that resides in the UEFI of motherboards. UEFI is the new “BIOS”. The possibilities for UEFI problems have been known since at least 2012 as this...
by wwarren | Mar 28, 2017 | Annoucements, Apple, Cloud Computing, Hardware
The newest IOS and MACOS represents a fundamental change in the very guts of the entire Apple ecosystem filesystem. Apple is changing the underlying file system for all facets of Apple OS operations. This update is available for all supported IOS/MACOS devices. The...
by wwarren | Mar 13, 2017 | Cyberpower, General, Hardware, Tripp-Lite
I mentioned earlier how modern electrical grid technology that is meant to help the power companies reduce service calls and increase the reliability of the grid can also present a danger to your critical technology. I had that same technology cause a failure...
by wwarren | Mar 10, 2017 | General, Ransomware, Security
I saw an article about this recently and went searching for an earlier publication date. This type of thing is typical of a first response, knee-jerk reaction because somebody found a hole in your procedures and this at the time seems to be the cheapest way out....
