Wayne Rash

If there was ever a malware attack that we should have been ready for, it’s the WannaCry ransomware attack that started attacking European organizations May 12. This malware uses an exploit revealed by the hacking group ShadowBrokers more than a year ago that employs a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Server Message Block […]

The Trump administration’s long awaited cyber-security executive order is finally here, and while it adds a number of new reporting requirements and includes the Office of American Innovation, run by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner as a major player in the cyber-security build-up, it doesn’t have the ability to actually implement changes. New steps taken by […]

Microsoft has Google to thank for revealing a new vulnerability in current versions of Windows, SharePoint and the company’s stand-alone security software—a vulnerability so serious that Microsoft rushed through a fix that’s already being sent out as an update to Windows. The vulnerability, which was found by staffers Natalie Silvanovich and Tavis Ormandy of Google […]

Voters in the UK woke up May 8 to a new series of ads and television announcements warning about fake news in preparation for the June 8 elections in that country. The ads, which were announced on the BBC, ran in national newspapers and included a list of 10 tips for spotting fake news. Facebook […]

Somehow the news reports on Friday were not a surprise even as they made things look worse for Uber than they already did. According to new reports from the Reuters news service, a federal grand jury in California has subpoenaed records and other information from Uber in connection with the Greyball software controversy that has […]

Most of the nation’s major wireless service providers are rushing to make announcements about deploying 5G mobile service on some minor scale. For example AT&T announced  that it has begun operating its first 5G network in Austin, Texas as of late April. Verizon, meanwhile, claims in a press release of its own that it’s about […]

The decision by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit not to grant a full court rehearing of the Title II reclassification decision isn’t a victory for net neutrality, despite the ballyhoo that’s making its way around the internet. It’s also not a defeat for net neutrality. In reality, it’s simply […]

There’s general agreement in the IT industry that Internet of Things security is terrible, where it exists at all. There are many reasons for this, but as Andrew Tannenbaum discussed in the Harvard Business Review, the biggest reason is likely what some are calling the IoT gold rush. Smart devices that are connected to the […]

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai kept his word that the FCC would conduct its deliberations in public when he ordered the public release of an official notice that its preparing to change the rules that regulate U.S. internet service providers. However, it’s worth noting that notice didn’t follow the procedure followed by the previous […]

In a move that has been widely expected since he was named Federal Communications Commission chairman, Ajit Pai has announced that he plans to end the changes his predecessor made when the FCC decided that the internet should be covered by Title II of the Communications Act. Pai was a commissioner when former Chairman Tom […]