Wayne Rash

Amazon has announced its Alexa voice-controlled digital assistant is being integrated into Windows 10 computers. The new computers, with Alexa installed, will begin hitting the market in the first quarter of 2018.  Once they arrive it won’t take long before there are enough such machines to change how we work with them and how they […]

The first thing you have to know in regards to the two processor vulnerabilities affecting Intel and other makers is that there are currently no exploits out there in the malware world right now. This means that if you can’t find a fix for the Spectre or Meltdown vulnerabilities for your organization’s computers, you don’t […]

T-Mobile’s deployment of commercial hardware from Nokia and Intel into a real-world environment is a critical step in deploying nation-wide mobile 5G network, which the carrier has said it would accomplish by 2020. The deployment is intended to test how millimeter wave radio signals operating at 28 GHz will behave in an urban setting, how […]

It would be easy to label 2017 as the year of the breach. The data breaches that stole personal information seemed to happen on a near-daily basis with only the biggest making the news at the end of the year. Meanwhile, events related to data breaches played their role. The biggest of them all was […]

Apple iPhone, iPad and MacBook users now have a more complete picture of what happens to the batteries in their devices as they age, along with a series of suggestions from Apple about how to lengthen battery life. iPhone users also got a $29 battery replacement deal. All of this came in a letter from […]

When new crypto-currency mining malware was discovered this week, the first reaction by many security managers was probably one of confusion. While most people know that crypto-currency is a term for digital currency such as Bitcoin, the idea of malware that mines money is something new. For that matter, so is the idea of malware […]

It’s hard to say which caused greater consternation. First a group of researchers determined that older iPhones were running slower once they were updated. Then Apple admitted that they were right, that Apple really was slowing down those iPhones. But the revelations kept coming. First the iPhone 6 and 6S were affected by these slowdowns, […]

At first look, a failure rate of 10.5 percent doesn’t sound like a lot, at least until you realize that that’s the percentage of emails that online security systems apparently miss when they’re looking for spam, malware and phishing. Then when you consider that most organizations of any size receive thousands of emails per day, […]

A 37-page letter written by an attorney on behalf of former Uber executive Richard Jacobs contained many more claims of illegal acts beyond the portions of it that were disclosed during a November federal court hearing. Initially the letter had been sealed, but now it’s been introduced into evidence as a part of the Waymo […]

In the net neutrality hysteria that’s been going on for the past few weeks as the Federal Communications Commission, prepared to vote on broadband reclassification, one of the most horrifying of tales was that an ISP might block sites it doesn’t want you to see. Such things were a threat to freedom, advocates said. What […]

The December open meeting of the Federal Communications Commission took place with demonstrators outside, a security threat inside and little substantive debate about the issue of network neutrality before a long-expected party-line vote. The demonstrators were there to protest the FCC’s imminent vote to reclassify broadband communications so that it’s under Title I of the […]

There’s no question that 2017 has been a bad year for security managers. Not only have exploits gotten worse, but data breaches have become bigger and more costly and malware creators have added powerful new capabilities to their arsenals. That trend will continue. On the other hand, attackers are changing their tactics so some of […]