Wayne Rash

Microsoft officials said Aug. 21 that it shut down six disinformation and spoofing internet domains operated by the Russian cyber-espionage group Strontium, also known as APT28 or Fancy Bear.  The company announced its actions in a blog post by its President Brad Smith who said that the company obtained a court order transferring the domains […]

Lenovo’s P920 dual-processor professional workstation is designed for the kind of workloads that most computers simply cannot do. Outfit it properly, and it’s the perfect solution for research, artificial intelligence development, engineering or serious graphics rendering.  The P920 is expensive, but it’s designed to be a computer that will last for a long time, and […]

President Donald Trump has signed the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act into law requiring the National Institute of Standards and Technology to provide cyber-security resources to small and medium businesses.  In this case, “resources” means guidelines, tools, best practices, standards, methodologies and other information designed to help SMBs. The law also requires the director of […]

The newly revealed Intel L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability, also known as Foreshadow, provides a new round of challenges for system administrators who must now find ways to protect their organization’s computers against what could be serious attacks.  Intel has released a blog post describing the flaws and explaining how they can affect systems through leakage […]

At first glance, the new Lenovo ThinkPad T480 appears indistinguishable from last year’s T470, and that’s no accident. For nearly two decades, ThinkPads have had the same rugged, flat-black looks, similar keyboard layouts and clear usable screens. But under that business-like appearance lives a laptop computer that keeps getting better every year. But there’s more […]

By now, if you didn’t know that Google is tracking your movements, you at least suspected it. Google makes a vast amount of its already enormous revenue by knowing and retaining as much information as possible about as many people as possible.  This information includes your whereabouts, your travel, and how your travels intersect with […]

I was on the phone with the credit card company, trying to determine whether the Visa card I carried could be used during my upcoming trip to Cuba. But first, the agent at the card company said that they had to be sure that I was really who they said I was. I’d already signed […]

On July 31, 2018, Facebook announced that the social network was removing 32-pages of bogus accounts for what the company called “inauthentic behavior.” Facebook gave a detailed explanation regarding the accounts it removed and noted that the behavior was similar to actions carried out by Russia’s Internet Research Agency before the 2016 election.  The next […]

T-Mobile’s CTO Neville Ray jubilantly tweeted on July 27, that the company had successfully tested a simultaneous, non-standalone 5G “New Radio” and 4G LTE connection.  This along with its first standards-based 5G NR bi-directional transmission in June, has shown that T-Mobile along with partner Nokia, have the technical ability to build a 5G network.  Qualcomm […]

A few days ago, I laid out the considerations involving a processor swap on a professional workstation. The idea is that you can improve the performance of your workstation by replacing the processor that’s in the machine now with one that’s faster. This can work if your workstation can accept a faster processor, but as […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun a series of briefings with executives of utility companies into the successful penetration of their supposedly secure networks by Russian hackers. The briefings, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, began in 2016 and continued into last year. DHS previously warned about the activities through an alert […]

A new antenna design and an integral modem chip that will allow mobile users to communicate using millimeter wave technology is now in production, according to chipmaker Qualcomm. Mohammed Al Khairy, Qualcomm’s Senior Manager of Modem Marketing, said July 23 that the new components are already in production, and that cellphone makers already have samples. […]