by wwarren | Jun 9, 2016 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
Due to the tremendous amounts of addresses afforded by the IPV6 standard, ETC Maryland’s data center provider has given ETC Maryland a large block of IPV6 addresses. With the current generation of IPV4 addresses now nearly gone, IPV6 is the new standard for...
by wwarren | May 13, 2016 | Annoucements, Cisco, Dell, Meraki, Sonicwall
ETC Maryland has the distinct pleasure of announcing three new vendors to its stable of trusted vendors: 1. Sonicwall(Dell) 2. Meraki(Cisco) 3. Cisco These new partnerships allow ETC Maryland to handle network needs from the smallest home need to our maximum sized...
by wwarren | May 9, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Security
Last July I talked about how Apple Music will steal your files from you when Apple decides it has them in its own cloud and then you have to pay to listen to those files. Now another person has been told this is by design by Apple itself. Backup, backup, backup....
by wwarren | May 2, 2016 | General, Security, Security Alerts
Is the expense of a lawsuit and the resulting judgement greater than the cost of proper security? I can say in most cases(if not all) that answer is yes. Case in point. Wendy’s was breached and is now facing lawsuits over the fraudulent transactions: In...
by wwarren | Apr 23, 2016 | Cloud Computing, General, Google Apps, Internet, Security
This is an example of current best practices not being forward thinking enough. I was recommending my basics of not getting infected way back in 2008. Time’s article lists the standard advice: The only way to protect against a ransomware attack is rote: keep...
by wwarren | Apr 19, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Ransomware, Security, Security Alerts
Story after story are being reported about many places being hit with ransomware. Protecting yourself against the effects of ransomware do not have to be overly complex or expensive. When it comes to backups, local backups are no longer enough. You REALLY need proper...
by wwarren | Apr 14, 2016 | Security, Security Alerts
It is about time as Quicktime has been slowly dying as even Apple has been shifting to HTML5 and mp4 based videos. If you have this software on your machine it is time to remove it. If you are offered it decline it as it will now be a major entry point for all kinds...
by wwarren | Apr 12, 2016 | Apple, Security, Security Alerts, Smartphone
Now this is a nasty one. If you are not running IOS 9.3.1 an automated WiFi based attack against your Idevice(which is not that hard to carry out) can permanently brick your expensive Idevice. The problem is that if your Idevice gets set back to the date of Jan 1,...
by wwarren | Apr 2, 2016 | Annoucements, Cisco, Dell, Meraki, Security, Sonicwall, Sophos, UTM
Astaro was probably the best edge UTM out there for quite some time. I used them from the first v4 all the way up until now. Astaro was then purchased by Sophos and it became a morass of corporate interference, no service to their smaller partners, a series of badly...
by wwarren | Apr 1, 2016 | Annoucements, Service Status
ETC Maryland will be performing various maintenance tasks on it’s server fleet. The maintenance window is midnight Apr 2nd to 1AM Saturday Apr 2. During this time websites and other services may experience loss of connections or a total outage due to server...
