Wayne Rash

AUSTIN, Texas—The tales of a fundamental disconnect between the IT staff in many companies and the security staff in those same companies abound. Those tales are based in fact as the IT department tries to meet the needs of the employees in a company, while the security staff tries to make sure everything stays secure. […]

AUSTIN, Texas:—A series of new and currently available Spiceworks products have been designed to help enterprises protect their networks from some of the worst internet of things security threats. Spiceworks introduced the new products Nov. 2 at its SpiceWorld 2016 users conference here, including a new cloud-based IP scanner for networks and a blacklist scanner […]

On the wall of the Truman Lounge in the National Press Club here in Washington hangs the picture of an election headline that’s familiar to every student of presidential politics. The picture is of former President Harry S. Truman holding the front page of the Chicago Tribune with the headline, “Dewey defeats Truman” in huge […]

There was a time when there was only one computer maker for those in creative pursuits, and it was Apple. For decades, people in corporate creative departments worked with Macintosh computers even when the rest of the company was running Windows-based PCs. That changed slightly with the introduction of the iPad, but art and design […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Massively parallel supercomputing hardware and advanced artificial intelligence algorithms are being harnessed to deliver powerful new research tools in science and medicine, according to Dr. France A. Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation. Córdova spoke Oct. 26 at the GPU Technology Conference organized by Nvidia, a company that got its start making video […]

Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Oct. 25 granted final approval for a massive settlement of just under $15 billion for using software in the computers that control the diesel engines in some of its cars that allowed those cars to cheat on emissions tests. The […]

The massive distributed denial-of-service attack that took out many popular internet services on Oct. 21 was so effective because it targeted part of the core infrastructure of the internet—the Domain Name System. The DNS service that was targeted, DynDNS, is used by a number of major websites, ranging from Twitter to Spotify. When their access […]

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.—In a spectacular night launch visible to millions along the east coast from New York to the Carolinas, Orbital ATK and NASA delivered a flawless launch of more than 5,100 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station. An upgraded version of Orbital’s Antares launch vehicle left its pad at 7:45 p.m., EDT […]

There’s no question that airlines in the United States are taking the problems with the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note7 seriously. This was clear when I flew to San Francisco recently and the crew on the United Airlines flight warned against the phone by name. Now the Federal Aviation Administration has banned the Note7 from all […]

Starting this week (on Oct. 11), Microsoft will change its update method for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, the dominant versions of Windows in the enterprise, to match the way updates are handled in Windows 10. What this means to enterprises is that you can no longer choose specific patches from a long list of […]

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note7 back in August, this new smartphone was intended to give the Korean giant a head start on the much anticipated iPhone 7 that was due out the following month. Instead, the Note7 became the definition of a product that should never have […]

The warnings were grim with this storm. As Hurricane Matthew was moving through the Caribbean with deadly effect, Florida Governor Rick Scott was already warning residents of the state that they needed to leave the low-lying areas in the eastern parts of the state. If people didn’t leave, he said, “This storm will kill you. […]