Wayne Rash

The U.S. Government’s response to the publication by WikiLeaks of about 8,000 pages of secret methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency to penetrate everything from cell phones to televisions has been varied. On one hand, Congress is in a panic. It’s setting up investigations and predicting the end of the world. Intelligence professionals, on […]

It’s been a tough few weeks for ride-sharing company Uber what with company CEO Travis Kalanik seen arguing over fares with one of his drivers, a former engineer accused of sexual harassment and now there’s allegations in the New York Times that Uber is deceiving regulators. The Times report suggested that Uber might be violating […]

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 […]