Wayne Rash

You hear about accident investigations on a regular basis. When an airliner goes down, or a train comes off the rails or any other serious accident, an investigation starts along with the grim task of recovering the dead and injured. Usually, there will be a briefing by the investigating authority at the start and then […]

If there was ever any question about Amazon Web Services’ critical role in keeping commercial web sites running smoothly, that question was answered definitively on Feb. 28 when part of the company’s S3 storage service went down. That outage took out dozens of Web services operating by companies ranging from Apple to Zendesk. What frustrated […]

The Space Race is back. SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced on Feb. 27, 2017 an ambitious plan to launch a mission that would carry two paying tourists on a trip around the moon in 2018. A similar NASA mission, using the long-awaited Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft, is in the planning stages for […]

The message on Twitter had the ominous overtones of recent Samsung problems, when Twitter user Bree posted a video of her swollen and blistered iPhone 7 Plus with smoke seeping out around the edges. This wasn’t the first time that an iPhone 7 fire had been reported, but this was the first video of the incident to […]

United Parcel Service delivery trucks are a familiar site on U.S. streets. But Imagine a UPS truck, which the company calls a “Package Car” stopping along the side of a road and launching a drone, which delivers a package while the truck driver delivers another package to another location. The drone is allowing the UPS […]

There was a time when it wasn’t totally clear that there would even be a new iPad since Apple has been struggled with falling sales and heavy competition from Microsoft and others makers of hybrid notebook-table PCs. Now that’s all changed with so many iPad rumors circulating on the Web it looks as though some […]

At first it may not sound like a big deal to organizations in the U.S. or Western Europe, but in fact the new cyber-reconnaissance malware discovered by CyberX may be a much bigger threat than it first appears. This new malware, which researchers at CyberX call Operation BugDrop is designed to sit quietly on computers throughout an organization and […]

An administration burned by the failure of its executive order on immigration to pass legal muster has held up consideration of its next big effort, which is an order on cyber-security. That executive order, something each administration has issued since the George W. Bush presidency, was withheld without explanation on the day it was supposed […]

A new breed of malware found by Kaspersky Lab may seem like a nightmare for system administrators and IT managers. This is malware that uses legitimate—frequently open-source—software to infect a system, then uses commonly used Windows services for implementation and operation. Once the malware is running inside of Windows it erases all traces of its […]

The new series of wireless access points from Aerohive Networks is designed and priced to provide enterprise grade mesh networking to small and medium businesses that until now have had to either make do with consumer WiFi routers or go with expensive enterprise equipment that required IT support staff. Aerohive has introduced two WiFi access […]

Admittedly it’s only a test, but if everything goes as expected, the Federal Communications Commission will throw off the veil of secrecy that has always kept the agency’s decision making out of the public’s view. According to an announcement by Chairman Ajit Pai, the FCC has begun a pilot program to release to the public […]

If there is a downside to having the best quarter you’ve ever had is that investors customers expect you to do it again next time, except even bigger. That’s the bad news—good news scenario Apple’s Tim Cook is dealing with right now. For now Cook take satisfaction that Apple’s sales are growing again. In the […]