Wayne Rash

Last week, a Honda plant in Japan was forced to shut down for a day while managers cleared it of the WannaCry ransomware worm that had infected its unpatched Windows computers. A similar event took out some 50 traffic cameras in Australia. And they’re not alone as the WannaCry ransomware worm continues to attack and […]

A lesson for Uber, and for the startup culture in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, is that you need more than one kind of manager at different times to make a company a success. Travis Kalanick’s decision to leave the company he co-founded and ran as CEO was necessary. Kalanick himself realized this, which is a […]

It’s difficult to characterize the data breach of a consulting firm that worked for the Republican National Committee. Deep Root Analytics of Arlington, Va., was paid approximately $1 million by the RNC to amass a storehouse of information on nearly every voter in the United States. As one might expect, the data files included the […]

Amazon has been trying to conquer the grocery business for a decade. At first, Amazon Fresh was only available in a few places, primarily in spots where the company already had a major presence, such as Seattle. But eventually it grew, and now you can get fresh groceries from Amazon in major metro areas, including […]

The management disorder at Uber showed few signs of abating this week, even as the ride sharing company’s board of directors decided to adopt 10 recommendations for improving corporate governance that was drafted by an investigative team lead by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Uber board member David Bonderman resigned on June 13 reportedly […]

A series of law suits, criminal investigations, executive departures and employee firings present a general picture of management disarray that calls into question whether once high-flying ride sharing startup Uber can survive as an independent business. Lately it seems more bad news emerges from Uber almost every day. A number of observers have put the […]

A major challenge for IT professionals is dealing with the vast number of alerts that stem from modern antivirus and antimalware software, firewalls and security appliances. The advantage of these products is that they’re very good at finding and reporting suspicious activity, but they also generate a lot of false positives. In fact, the alerts […]

The recent disclosure of a document leak from the National Security Agency that contains details about the Russian hacking attempt on a vendor of voter registration software has the making of a spy thriller, even including a perpetrator with a name that might be right out of a James Bond spy thriller. But as bad […]

Apple introduced plenty of new hardware at the Worldwide Developers Conference including long-awaited iPad Pro tablets and a Xeon-powered iMac Pro. Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered the long awaited announcement of a new iPad Pro tablet at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 5 in San Jose. Apple also announced new Macintosh computers, new […]

We already know much about  Worldwide Developers Conference 2017, which starts on Monday June 5 in San Jose. As usual the rumor mill has been active and unlike in some years most of the rumors are in accord. The consensus is that while the World Wide Developer’s Conference is still going to be mostly about […]

Normally I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about malware on my iPhone. After all, Apple supposedly screens apps to make sure they are malware-free and iOS is allegedly resistant to malware. This is probably why I was shocked and annoyed when malware arrived, leaving me with the choice of accepting it or hoping […]

At some point, the system-wide computer outage that took all of British Airways out of action starting on May 27 will provide a valuable lesson in maintaining critical systems. But for now, British Airways’ IT staff is investigating why the systems failed so it can decide how to prevent it happening again. “It was not […]