Wayne Rash

Thirteen years ago, Hurricane Katrina was the first real test of wireless infrastructure in the U.S. handling a major disaster, and it didn’t go well. Three of the major carriers were off the air, cell towers that were still standing had no power, switching centers were under water, and the city of New Orleans was […]

The fact that Apple was going to announce new iPhones on Sept. 12 was not a secret, and Apple didn’t really try to make it one, which means that nearly everyone already knew that the new devices would be called the iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max. We also knew that Apple was going to […]

Not long after you read this, a major hurricane is expected to make landfall along the Carolina coast, probably near the historic city of Wilmington, NC. It’s unclear at this point whether hurricane will strike as a Category 4 hurricane or will make landfall as a Category 5, but that hardly matters because either way […]

A Washington-based watchdog group, the Campaign for Accountability, is reporting that it was able to post a series of ads on Google sites that emulated the activities of Russian trolls.  The ads used divisive images and wording taken from or inspired by similar ads that ran during the 2016 presidential election and they were purchased […]

Senior executives from Facebook and Twitter testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that they have made progress in purging fake accounts that were the source foreign efforts to influence the 2016 election campaign.  But they called for greater cooperation with government, industry and cyber-security experts to identify future threats and attempts to meddle […]

You may not have heard of a fileless malware attack, but despite its obscurity, it’s a real and serious threat.  Furthermore, fileless malware makes up about 70 percent of executables that are unknown to reputation services, according to SentinelOne’s Enterprise Risk Index Report for the 2018 first half. This means that antivirus software that depends […]

Every telecom merger has opponents. There are interest groups that oppose virtually all mergers as a matter of course. There are competitors who worry that a merger will hurt them and there are companies, including large customers, who think a merger might be bad, even if they can’t demonstrate why. But what’s less common are […]

MANASSAS, VA – Virginia governor Ralph Northam helped executives from Micron Technology break ground on a new manufacturing facility in this city of 43,000 near Washington, DC Aug. 29, saying that the $3 Billion dollar investment is the largest ever in Virginia by a private company. Micron already has a large manufacturing facility here that […]

For some people with the neurological condition, synesthesia can be a lovely thing when the sounds they hear also produce colors.  But computer scientists from Tel Aviv University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have discovered a computer version of synesthesia that allows them to determine what’s being displayed on a monitor […]

For many Apple observers, 2018 is looking like it’s going to be what’s called an “S” year. This means that the new iPhone X models will be called XS, and the upgrades will be relatively minor, focusing on things such as faster processors.  But there will still be changes in the iPhone lineup, including a […]

The text message arrived Aug. 24 during my morning coffee. “T-Mobile MSG: Hello – We ID’d & shut down an unauthorized capture of your info. No financial info / SSN taken but some personal info may have been.” That was followed by a link to T-Mobile’s security announcement, which basically said the same thing.  While […]

WASHINGTON—After the scandal created by the revelations that Cambridge Analytica misused the personal information of 87 million Facebook users, members of Congress began considering ways to rein in the unbridled power of social media companies and the companies known on Capitol Hill as Big Tech.  To that end, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), co-chair of the […]