Wayne Rash

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 […]

Toshiba X20W-D Business Ultrabook Is Tough as it Is Versatile Toshiba’s new X20W-D ultrabook is part of a growing class of business computers that are designed for life on the road, but work well in the office, too. This is a 2–in–1 computer features a touch-sensitive screen that can fold back on the chassis to […]

Toshiba’s new business ultrabook, the Portégé X20W-D is the sort of computer you want to have with you all the time. It’s slightly smaller than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro and only slightly thicker and heavier than that tablet. However it comes with a real keyboard, a stylus, a full high-definition screen and a collection of […]