Wayne Rash

If there’s good news regarding the recently revealed KRACK and ROCA encryption holes, it’s that many systems have already been patched to fix the problems. The better news is that there’s no evidence that either have been exploited by hackers. But don’t breathe out that sigh of relief just yet, because these are potentially very […]

If you feel the urge today, you can pick up your smartphone and say to the Google Assistant, “Order my favorite soap from Target,” and you’ll be presented with a photo of the item, and a button to click to order it. According to Google, you can do the same thing today with a Google […]

The fires that ripped through California’s wine country moved with deadly speed, trapping people in their houses and in their neighborhoods. In many cases, the only warning victims received was if they happened to see the flames in the distance. Other residents were able to escape the wind-driven flames if they were able to receive […]

First, it was the hams. In the terrifying aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the only communications available to residents came from the few ham radio operators who were able to get their equipment running because they had generators to provide power. Phone service on the island did not exist. The government had some communications, but that […]

Uber’s seemingly endless quest to know (and potentially control) everything it could about the users of the company’s app, turns out to have had some help from Apple. In an unprecedented move, Apple appears to have granted the ride-hailing company’s app the ability to access iOS devices’ frame buffer directly, which included the ability to […]

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Russian hackers were able to steal highly classified secrets disclosing how the U.S. government hacks into foreign networks, how it protects itself against cyber-attacks and what hacking tools it uses. The information reportedly came from a National Security Agency contractor who had taken the material home. The existence […]

Lenovo T470 Among the Best Business Ultrabooks on Today’s Market Lenovo has a long history of producing excellent business laptop computers. The best of the breed always has been the legendary T-Series, whose history stretches back long before Lenovo’s name appeared on what were then IBM ThinkPad computers. Even then, they were built by Lenovo. […]

At first glance, the Lenovo T470 looks like another T-series laptop of indeterminate age. It has the same flat black skin with few features beyond the ThinkPad logo and an array of ports along each side. On closer inspection, however, the latest in the ThinkPad line is thinner than before. Pick it up and you’ll […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Three members of the intelligence community, speaking on the keynote panel at the NetEvents Global Press and Analyst Summit here, agree that the security landscape today is rapidly becoming a scarier than ever.  That’s because today’s hackers have become more skilled and technologically reactive than what security professionals were used to dealing with […]

The promise by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to turn over about 3,000 ads placed by Russian interests during the 2016 Presidential campaign to Congress and Special Counsel Robert Mueller is only the beginning of a new effort to get a handle on online political advertising. Zuckerberg has now also promised that Facebook will develop new […]

When Equifax announced Sept. 7 that about 143 million consumer credit records had been breached hackers, it was telling only part of the story. What Equifax didn’t say at the time was that the hackers could leisurely explore the records for nearly five months. The company also didn’t publicly admit at the time that these […]

Finally, iPad is getting its due. Since Apple introduced its tablet, it’s always been the lesser sibling, sort of like an iPod music player with a big screen. While Apple finally delivered an enterprise class tablet with the iPad Pro, it’s taken until iOS 11 for the iPad to get the software features it needs […]