by wwarren | Jun 30, 2021 | Annoucements, Hosting, Security, Service Status
ETC Maryland has services for those who want fully managed hosting to if you want to do nearly everything yourself. Let’s go through the points Wordfence raises: Backups. We do two backups per day. One is at noon and is on another server in the datacenter. ...
by wwarren | Jun 27, 2021 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
I just completed a server replacement. Here’s the vitals on the two machines: Old Web1: Dual Xeon 6 core L5640 12 cores w/HT @ 2,2ghz for a total of 24 threads cpu release date 2010 64 gigs ram dual ssd’s in RAID1. 50 megabit connection Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...
by wwarren | Jun 22, 2021 | Annoucements, Service Status, Services
You can also see there service alerts on the Twitter page. This upcoming Sunday Jun 27, all web services will be offline from 5pm until midnight. This is to facilitate a server replacement and upgrade. New hardware, operating system, and Internet connection will all...
by wwarren | Jun 17, 2021 | General, Hardware, Ubiquiti, WIFI
A common refrain i see from folks is they are having problems with IOS and Unifi. I simply do not have these problems..but I have some default settings I use on every single site I setup to start with. These are controller settings..i use on everything. Cloudkey,...
by wwarren | Apr 28, 2021 | FreeBSD, Linux, Open Source
Remember this post? My quest for an open source hypervisor as part of my ongoing software stack continues. It appears SCALE will not be part of that stack going forward. I have since figured out that SCALE is not going to be able to handle the use case I am looking...
by wwarren | Apr 7, 2021 | Annoucements, Firewalls, Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
I do work for another firm out in California and one of the biggest clients there suddenly found their guest network offline. When the firewall was attempted to be logged into all account credentials have either been changed or deleted..locking us out of the...
by wwarren | Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Wordfence discovered these vulnerabilities in the Thrive Theme had been silently patched on March 12th. As of the 23rd many sites using this theme and it’s associated packages were still not updated. Further analysis discovered two vulnerabilities than when...
by wwarren | Mar 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
So a story is going around about an Android component update…however it’s mainly the non-pixel phones that are being affected. All other android vendors install other software in addition to just Android. Int he case of Samsung it’s android, then...
by wwarren | Mar 17, 2021 | Annoucements, Hosting, Security Alerts
The wildly popular Elementor site builder plugin has a vulnerability that can allow a third party site to secretly compromise a WordPress site if the user is logged into the site as the administrator. Normally when you are on one site..a third party site is blocked...
by wwarren | Mar 16, 2021 | Annoucements, FreeBSD, Linux, Open Source, Research Projects, Storage
With the completion of my ransomware resistance storage research and product announcement, I have now embarked on a new research project. I am looking for an open source virtualization host. I have already tried XCP-NG and I just could not get it to work...
