Wayne Rash

Facebook has caught so much heat for its privacy practices, especially after the data breach that came at the hands of Cambridge Analytica, that the social network is actually making it easier to control privacy settings. Previously, users hate to navigate through a series of pages some of which were fairly hard to find when […]

The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has confirmed in a statement released on March 26 that the agency is moving forward with a plan to prevent carriers using equipment made in China from receiving funding from the Universal Service Fund.  The USF is a pool of about $8.5 Billion collected from communications users in […]

Facebook was already in a world of trouble following revelations that Cambridge Analytica used misappropriated data from users in its political ad targeting during the 2016 election.  Facebook user rage spiked and many voices called for investigations even as Mark Zuckerberg remained silent about the breach for five days before offering an explanation and apology. […]

The ransomware that has taken out many of the computers in the Atlanta, Ga. is well known by security researchers as the SamSam malware. It appears to be run by a single group of bad actors who use a common Bitcoin wallet and who are very effective at convincing their victims to pay up.  “SamSam […]

Facebook’s late and ineffective response to the breach of 50 million user profiles by Cambridge Analytica in 2014 has not only enraged many of its billions of users around the world, it has them wondering if they can trust the company to protect their data from commercial and political exploitation.  That outrage had many users […]

The revelations over Saint Patrick’s Day weekend that Facebook allowed a data mining company to gather the records of 50 million American users is just the most recent case in which the social network has failed to prevent access to user records.   Facebook has been the subject of previous privacy investigations by the Federal Trade […]

A report from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) provides a detailed look at how alleged Russian attackers planned and executed a long-term cyber-attack against unprepared energy installations.  The attacks started by compromising a partner and then using the partner’s IT systems to stage an attack on the ultimate-power generation stations.  “DHS and FBI […]

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki caught the tech community off guard Tuesday when she announced that the video-sharing service owned by Google parent Alphabet would begin posting Wikipedia entries next to conspiracy theory videos in an effort to give viewers a heads-up that the claims might be bogus.  About the same time, Google, which is also […]

Since mid-November 2017, Singapore-based Broadcom has been trying to convince Qualcomm’s leadership and shareholders to accept its $117 billion bid to acquire the U.S. producer of mobile device chips and wireless networking technology. Broadcom’s goal was to reach a date certain for Qualcomm shareholders to vote on its slate of corporate directors who would act […]

A new type of storage that’s now becoming available for use in data centers will significantly improve the speed of storage, reducing processor wait times, improving latency and saving and retrieving data many times faster than today’s SSDs.  This new type of storage, called 3D Xpoint (pronounced cross-point) uses stacked memory cells that depend on […]

The high-flying crypto-currency market in the U.S. will get its wings clipped if federal regulators have anything to say about it.  In a March 7 statement, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton announced that the agency’s enforcement branch would begin looking at crypto-currency exchanges as well as at Initial Coin Offerings of crypto-currencies. The […]

Microsoft’s March 5 announcement about the integration of Azure Stack and Azure Government is important to enterprises of all kinds—not just government agencies—because it creates a hybrid cloud service that doesn’t need access to the outside world.  The combined services allow government cloud users to take advantage of cloud technology while also meeting requirements for […]