Wayne Rash

The images go on from page after page in a new staff report from the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology detailing Russian efforts to influence public opinion on hot button domestic issues in the U.S. related to energy use and production.  The images came from posts and advertising that ran on Facebook, Instagram […]

You already know how to tell the difference between someone you know well, perhaps your spouse or long-time friend and a stranger that might try to impersonate them. You recognize the timbre of their voice, the speech patterns that are unique to them. You know little characteristics like how they hold a phone or how […]

U.S. Supreme Court justices heard arguments Feb 27  in the Department of Justice’s effort to overturn a decision by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that found that the government did not have the authority to demand information stored on a Microsoft owned server located in Ireland.  Two conservative justices, Chief […]

The reports that Nigerian criminals have managed to bilk businesses out of billions of dollars through sophisticated business email compromise schemes is alarming.  What’s more alarming is that the hackers managed to break into the email accounts of accounts payable staff and modify the settings on their email accounts to hide their activities and to […]

Within minutes of the first reports that a shooter had killed 17 students and staff at a Florida high school, social media came alive with a tsunami of activity. Of course, most of the messages were expressions of shock, grief, and outrage spreading through on-line communities in the U.S. and abroad. But much of it […]

An unsecured Kubernetes container management console allowed cyber-attackers to breach a Tesla cloud account that contained sensitive data, including telemetry data from the company’s electric cars, according to a report by security company RedLock.  Details about Tesla cloud account breach where included in RedLock report as an example of the cyber-security threats face enterprises that […]

A group of 13 Russians and three related organizations have been indicted for carrying out a series of cyber-crimes conducted over nearly three years that attempted to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election.  The 37-page federal indictment that was unsealed on Feb. 16 alleges that Russia’s Internet Research Agency as well as two companies closely […]

The characteristics of cloud containers that make them attractive to data center managers also make them attractive to crypto-miners.  The ease of setup, the isolation and the performance advantages, coupled with the fact that containers may not enjoy the same level of security as hardware infrastructure, mean that an attacker can operate crypto-currency mining in […]

Starting on February 15, 2018, your Chrome browser will start blocking ads that don’t meet the standards set by the Coalition for Better Ads. The idea is to improve the browsing experience of web users by getting rid of the worst of the annoyances that they generally object to.  These annoyances include ads that provide […]

Just the mention of passwords is enough to raise the heart-rate of system administrators because they are a constant headache. Users lose them; they forget them; they write them down on Post-It notes on their desks. You have to help them recover those passwords and make sure they’re changed on a regular basis and crafted […]

If there’s good news in Washington, it’s that the leadership of the U.S. Senate found a way to agree on a budget after months of dysfunction and posturing. Despite broad support in the Senate, the bill found the going unusually difficult, mostly due to attempts by individual members of Congress to burnish their egos. However, […]

Microsoft wants your cloud business so badly, it’s willing to give you free access to OneDrive to get it. The deal, according to Microsoft’s Office blog, is that it will give the free OneDrive to existing business customers of Box, Dropbox or Google Drive for the duration of their contract to make the switch. The […]