by wwarren | Sep 23, 2021 | Hosting, Linux, Open Source, Service Status
I was at my office workstation looking at web1 when suddenly my site…and every other site on web 1..vanished. All i started seeing was MySQL database connection errors. The amount of errors escalated until MySQL crashed completely. Attempts to restart MySQL...
by wwarren | Aug 31, 2021 | Annoucements
3x Intel Xeon vCPU Cores 58(10 Usable) GB PURE SSD RAID-10 Storage 2.8 GB RAM 5,000GB Monthly Data Transfer 10 Domain Virtualmin Pro License 1 Dedicated IPv4 Address Limited IPV6 availability. All system and software updates handled by ETC Maryland 14 Day archive of...
by wwarren | Aug 22, 2021 | Microsoft, Windows, Windows 10, Windows365
Microsoft is one of the biggest. software companies…this is widely known. What is not widely known is there are parts that are vulnerable by design. The recent print nightmare vulnerabilities have one of them that could be easily triggered with little or no...
by wwarren | Aug 20, 2021 | Cisco, Firewalls, Security, Security Alerts
Even the big companies end of life products. Security research continues against these devices though as the installed base continues to be very large. These end of life devices present a severe threat to your networks. The Cisco RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W...
by wwarren | Jul 28, 2021 | Comcast, Internet
Remember this post?Comcast sent a tech out with another modem. This time it was one of their Cisco “towers” as i call it. I got that one installed…and thins got worse. The modem first booted up. the tech then loaded the static IP configuration...
by wwarren | Jul 27, 2021 | Comcast, Firewalls
i ordered a block of 5 static ipv4 from Comcast. Of course they require us to use their modem/gateway device. AND it’s also a technicolor(known in the industry as technicrap). I almost rejected the install right there..and looking back, i should have. The...
by wwarren | Jul 24, 2021 | Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Open Source, Storage
One of a clients backups are using 5-8 terabytes of disk space on a cloud backup. the disk usage on the NAS itself(due to zfs native dompression is 2.7 TB. It’s taken a while to figure out but it turns out Rclone(which is what truenas uses for it’s cloud...
by wwarren | Jul 20, 2021 | Annoucements, Hosting
The folks at Wordfence have a good video about the new WordPress revision 5.8. It’s got some new image type support along with a removal of support for internet Explorer. There’s other feature updates as well. Fully managed clients will be getting...
by wwarren | Jul 14, 2021 | Annoucements
ETC Maryland will soon be a DBA of Emmanuel Technology Consulting. As the business has grown the days of sole proprietorship are done. This is going to allow ETC Maryland to grow further and serve clients with a wider selection of services. It will also allow us to...
by wwarren | Jul 4, 2021 | Annoucements, Security, Security Alerts
This is now the SECOND time their VSA product has been compromised. How Kaysea still exists at this point….I have no idea. https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360000333152 (previous compromise)...
