Wayne Rash

When a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia handed down its much anticipated ruling on June 14 supporting the Federal Communication Commission’s Title II reclassification, it was immediately clear that all sides of the conflict had their press release machines primed and ready to launch. The resulting flood […]

Perhaps it was because I heard the news about Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn while attempting to navigate Washington’s Capital Beltway, but at the time, it seemed like a breath of fresh air. Around me, a flood of crazed lobbyists and lawyers battled each other to see how fast they could go in the clogged traffic. […]

The last few weeks have been one of those times when you almost say, “another day, another breach.” In this case, something like 32 million purported Twitter user names and passwords have appeared on the Dark Web for sale. In response, the Twitter security folks found the names for sale, and set the accounts to […]

In some ways, the latest variation of Crysis (or Crisis, depending on whom you ask) malware either provides something for everyone, or it’s a nightmare scenario, depending on how you look at it. When Crysis first came to light, it was a fairly typical, if annoying, form of ransomware. It would encrypt some files and […]

To some extent, the breach that got Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was more an amusing lesson than a catastrophe. Zuckerberg’s LinkedIn login information was taken in the massive breach of that service four years ago, but it wasn’t made public until a few weeks ago. When hackers found Zuckerberg’s password, they tried it in other places, […]

Some years ago I was standing on the bridge of a Perry-class frigate off the coast of Cuba as I listened to a couple of my fellow officers quietly plot to make sure a young lieutenant failed her Surface Warfare qualification. In their view the fact that she was female was reason enough to consider […]

National Security Letters have been around as long as the Internet, but only after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have they been used with great frequency. An NSL is a type of a subpoena issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that demands information from a customer’s bank, telephone company, Internet service provider […]

It happened a few days ago, just as it happens nearly every day when I read the news: I clicked on a story about drone regulations and, instead of a story, I was greeted by a loud, unrelated video that I couldn’t stop. Eventually it ran its course, and I was able to read the […]

I’ve known about the Have I Been Pwned Website for a couple of years, and I decided to check it out to see if it was legitimate. The site was created to alert Web users if their online identities have been compromised in cyber-attacks and data breaches. So I entered in my email addresses and […]

In a move that’s already being criticized as “illusive” by some, the European Commission has announced a plan to change how it regulates digital markets within the European Union. The central theme of the announced changes to the Digital Single Market Strategy (DSMS) centers on what the EC calls Audiovisual Media Services, which includes services […]

The European Commission will release its technology policy communication on May 25, and depending on exactly what’s in the document, it could have significant impact on digital business communications between the United States and the European Union. According to James Waterworth, Europe vice president of the Computer and Communication Industry Association, the EC’s plans include […]

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has released a set of what the agency calls voluntary best practices for unmanned aircraft system privacy, transparency and accountability. The guidelines are the result of a White House memo that directed the agency to develop a set of privacy standards for drone use. The best practices document is […]