by wwarren | Jul 6, 2016 | Annoucements
Lori Curley of Curley Marketing is one of the most dynamic web designers I have had the pleasure of working with. Lori not only redesigned the ETC Maryland website but she does something not many WordPress designers do: Every site has its own style. Templates are...
by wwarren | Jun 21, 2016 | Internet, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 10
I can verify the author’s experiences below. I have a Surface 3 and an HP laptop running windows 10. I also have a shuttle box with a sandy bridge core i-3 cpu and 8 gigs of ram. Edge is a total hog. It will grab everything in ram it can and then force the...
by wwarren | Jun 20, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Dell, Dell, Hardware, Storage
With network security such a huge business it stuns me that Dell first bought dinosaur vendor EMC and is now selling most of its other “non-core” assets to others. Sonicwall is now owned by private equity firm Francisco Partners and hedge fund Elliott...
by wwarren | Jun 20, 2016 | Internet, Ransomware, Security, Security Alerts
Windows has issues that make it easy for this type of infection to take hold: Javascript once it gets onto the system is run by the Windows Scripting Host which has a very high level of system access. Windows hides file extensions so the .js extension...
by wwarren | Jun 20, 2016 | Security, Security Alerts
If you are using a windows based POS you are probably going to get hacked. If you have your vendors remote access tools installed(and many do) your chances of getting hacked are much much higher: Wendy’s statement that the attackers got access by stealing credentials...
by wwarren | Jun 19, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Security, Security Alerts
As I have stated over and over the cloud is NOT secure. It never will be and never can be. the highly centralized nature of the various cloud services means you do NOT want to put anything critical on the cloud. You can go to my cloud section of my blog as I start...
by wwarren | Jun 14, 2016 | Apple, General, Hardware
I have watched the WWDC keynote from Apple twice so far and I am going to watch it again. There are some very compelling features for the ecosystem. I watched the Twit coverage of the keynote(after I watched it live) and even Leo who is a big fan expressed concerns...
by wwarren | Jun 11, 2016 | Security, Security Alerts
It turns out the my experiences with poor security and poor customer service at whmcs are not the exception. It didn’t take long to find out that whmcs has a repeated pattern of poor security and poor customer service. They routinely deny security issues exist...
by wwarren | Jun 10, 2016 | Security, Security Alerts
WHMCS has gone from simply being unhelpful to being in denial. This, unfortunately, is typical for companies today. I have been digging into this problem since it first cropped up as i noted in my previous post. Now WHMCS has gone from telling me it is on my end to...
by wwarren | Jun 9, 2016 | Security, Security Alerts
I have gotten to the point that when it comes to my systems when somebody tells me I am wrong it is just a matter of time before not only do I diagnose the issue but I can prove it. I was trying to get WHMCS working. Every time I would try to save the initial...
