Wayne Rash

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 […]

The successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy ushers in a new era of practical space operations for private industry. The view of Earth through the windshield of a Tesla roadster may represent one of the more important technological achievements in recent memory. The view, which happened while Elon Musk’s sports car was on its […]

By the time your employees have had their laptop computers for a few years, you’re bound to start hearing complaints that they’re too old to use productively.  Too old usually means that your employees think they’re getting too slow, that they’re tired of waiting for the computer to start up, for programs to execute or […]