At least 12 million home and business routers are a gateway into your network
If you router is vulnerable to this outsiders can easily take control of hte router and use it to jump into your network. These devices have been coming under increasingly attacks due to their poor...
View ArticleWhen Virtualization and Comcast Tech Support meet
It comes at a great advantage to the knowledgeable tech when dealing with a company like Comcast who almost never looks to say the issue is on their end in terms of residential accounts. I just had an...
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Another client miniaturized
I had a client who recently moved to a new location. A partial move to the cloud was performed a couple of years ago with the establishment of Google Apps for work account. This rendered the SBS2003...
View ArticleGet Your Phone Repaired by the Wrong Tech And Your Iphone is a Brick
Apple has implemented a system that if you get your screen replaced by a non apple tech your phone is most likely going to be bricked with an error 53. Apple has confirmed this is expected behavior...
View ArticleWhen vendors go boom
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...
View ArticleETC announces new network security vendor partnerships with industry leaders
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...
View ArticleDell banks the company on turning into a fully vertically integrated cloud...
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...
View ArticleVendor Spotlight: CDC Cellular Repair, LLC.
The internet is buzzing with “news” of a potential problem with the Apple Iphone 6+ devices with two chips on its main logic board. One of my vendors alerted me to this more than a year ago. John...
View ArticleWhen you have poor security…BLAME RUSSIA(or whomever else)
When the Yahoo hack was revealed I absolutely dismissed Yahoos assertions of a nation state actor. I have been waiting for the independent investigations to play out and now the REAL reason for the...
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Sophos UTM DNS resolution bug leads to misclassification of web traffic.
The HTTP proxy in UTM 9 has always been a finicky beast. Unfortunately ever since Sophos took over Astaro AND Sophos took the HTTP proxy from the Squid proxy to a proprietary in house proxy the...
View ArticleThe $840 scam from Sprint
I had a horrid experience with Sprint lately. My current phone, a LG Rumor, has the tendency to power off instantly when it goes into standby. It’s random in occurrence. I finally called up Sprint...
View ArticlePERC S300 – Another FAKERAID card
PERC S300 – can it be made to work?. I saw this on the Dell Linux mailing list. I did a bit of research and found this is a windows only FAKERAID product. What I mean by FAKERAID is the card fakes...
View ArticleFaulty Capacitors: See, They Knew! – The Market Ticker ®
I had forgotten about this story until my wife told me she is now having to replace the caps on optiplexes because of this issue. I wrote it off then until i saw this post from Dell where they say the...
View ArticleCloud Computing is NOT immune to Microsoft and other vendor style lock-in
This is very good reading. IF you decide to go with a cloud solution the big question is..are you in control of your data or are you at the total mercy of the cloud vendor? This has significant...
View ArticleIs Astaro Heading in the Wrong Direction?
I’ve been using Astaro since they were at version 4. I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. V4 was, in my opinion, the best version they have ever released. Version 5 was badly bug ridden upon released...
View ArticleVerizon on it’s way to being sold?
Given the fact that verizon’s total debt nearly matches it’s market cap(not it’s actual income which is lower) I’m betting Verizon either sells off all it’s landlines AND fios lines and then buys out...
View ArticleIntel’s walled garden plan to put control of ALL code in it’s hands
Ok folks. Here it comes. MS and Intel(Wintel is NOT dead) wants to have everything signed by it so that there’s no more bad or malicious code. Of course this would put an end to the open source...
View ArticlePossible phone outage.
*IMPORTANT NOTE TO ECC CLIENTS* ECC is currently embroiled in a dispute with my phone provider Sprint-Nextel. ECC may loose phone service during this time. If you try to call and cannot get through...
View ArticleCellular Really Isn’t Worth it Anymore
Sprint just plain sucks. We’ve been customers for over 10 years..yet they say we’ve only been there for 8. That’s not what irks me. What really irks me is the constant threat of account suicide I...
View ArticleTechnolog – Unlimited wireless data is dead even thought he costs of transfer...
Read this article carefully. It was just a matter of time: As more Americans have become smart phone users, their appetite for Web video, music downloads and other data-intense apps on those phones has...
View ArticleOracle’s hostility towards open source continues
You have to read both pages of the article…don’t just scan it. Oracle has been slowly dismantling Sun’s entire portfolio and they are continuing that trend with Java. Apache threatens Oracle with Java...
View ArticleRed Hat Releases RHEL 6
I’ve been waiting for this. There’s some performance issues with this latest version while virtualized but Red Hat is very good about fixing regressions like this. I’m waiting the month or two it’ll...
View ArticleGreat site for IR-ADV 5051 manual
http://www.tcnj.edu/~helpdesk/documents/Canon%20eManuals/Canon%20Color%20eManual/iRADV_C5051_Manual_us/contents/adfunc_002/func.html
View ArticlePalantir Shys Away From HB Gary After the Anonymous Pwnage
HB Gary gets further isolated. One of the two other companies that assisted HB Gary in it’s illegal witch hunt has now apologized and “severed all ties” to HB Gary. My question is…why would anyone do...
View ArticleThe Anonomys “victim” list grows.
So the list grows. Started by a law firm..at the request of BofA. Unless this was gov’t sanctioned there’s already tons of folks needing to get irons. So far there’s been zero mention of a court...
View ArticleWelcome to Wallet Shock- The Tmob ATT Merger Broken Down
If you are on T-Mobile stick with your current plan and phone until they turn those phones off. ATT is going to effectively jack your prices 25% or more when you “switch”. Read the linked article for...
View ArticleAT&T’s Customers Watch out
Not only are ATT and Tmobile customers getting hammered in the upcoming merger but land line customers are about to get hammered as well. Some of the regs are legal.. just not ethical. Several users...
View ArticleMy First Astaro Purchase…Gone Bad
I’ve gone a while before making a first purchase. Right now i’m not sure I’m going to be making another one. I purchased a license for my church recently. At a cost(even with my partner discount) equal...
View ArticleAstaro License Issues Continue
The license itself is borked. I just re-applied my “home” license and it worked fine. I then created an eval license and installed that to “upgrade” the other “home” license…that worked. Installing my...
View ArticleIt’s Fixed
The issue was the licensing server is in Germany and therefore you have to create licenses according to German time..at least that is how it was. They have fixed that issue. The licenses now work as...
View ArticleOne of a Few Certifications I’ll Persue
I just passed the Astaro Certified Administrator course. The next one is the Astaro Certified Engineer. These will help further my status and abilities as an Astaro partner. These courses I ahve...
View ArticleWatch the Bouncing Server
Ecc’s site(among others hosted here) has been spontaneously rebooting randomly over the past couple of days. The server is hosted by Swift Systems in Frederick and finally ECC and Swift personnel had...
View ArticleVirtualization Projects Update
I currently have two virtualization projects going. One is to convert 3 physical server to hyper-v and one is to convert 3 physical servers to KVM. Unfortunately p2v on a domain controller is not...
View ArticleVirtualization Project Update
I got Hyper-v working finally here at my office. I now have one box hosting 3 virtual mahcines. VM 1 is my Astaro firewall. VM 2 is my main AD file/print/authentication server. VM 3 is my Astaro...
View ArticleNot on Autopay? Vz is Going to Charge You to Pay Your Bill
It should read…you WILL see a HIGHER chance of billings errors if you go on autopay. Every time we have tried it there’s ALWAYS been a major error and getting it fixed is worse than pulling teeth....
View ArticleOh NOES!!! A Mega Virus for MAC!!!!!
Let’s get one thing straight. The media, as usual, is not only blowing this out of proportion but also not keying on the right part of the problem. This is not a Mac issue but a java problem. Java...
View ArticleAn Accurate Article About the Mac Trojan Hysteria
…………….. let’s look closely at the facts around the Flashback Trojan causing all this consternation, and clear up what it is versus what it is not, and put the results of the incident in perspective....
View ArticleIndependent Evaluation of AVG products on Windows 8.
AVG scored in the top 5 again. This is the reason i’ve partnered with AVG as recently their products have garnered consistent top 5 scores while costing much less and while being much less invasive...
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New Client Upgrade
ETC Maryland has been working with this client for several years. The network this setup replaced was first installed in 2005 when this clients business first started. Due to ETC Maryland’s forward...
View ArticleNew WIFI deployment
Am currently working on a WIFI deployment. The client has a split-level home along with about 1/2 acre of surrounding land. 3 access points cover the large home inside and one long range mounted on...
View ArticleComcast Business Fiber Fiobles..Temporarily Stymied
November, 2017: I received an e-mail saying that Comcast has pulled fiber into this area and that their gigabit pro service was available to me as a business class customer. This is a pure fiber to...
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