Wayne Rash

The Chinese cyberthreat group known as “admin@338” has developed a new and potentially serious method of attacking enterprises using a resource that’s probably already in use at your organization. The delivery system uses application programming interfaces (APIs) from Dropbox to hide the attackers’ command and control functions inside an encrypted service where it can’t be […]

Despite the bluster in Congress about the need to press forward with laws banning the use of encryption in the United States following the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, the truth is out. It turns out that the Paris attackers didn’t encrypt anything, but instead communicated openly, in some cases publically, about their plans. […]

When it arrived in the big box from T-Mobile, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the iPad Pro. I mean, I’d seen the announcement, and I’d looked at the press info that Apple had sent out, but that doesn’t really give you an idea of the look and feel of something until you […]

The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Registration Task Force delivered its much-anticipated recommendations for drone registration to the Federal Aviation Administration on schedule, Nov. 20. The recommendations will likely form the basis for the FAA’s new rules for drone registration, which are slated to go into effect shortly before Christmas 2015. The recommendations aren’t onerous. While there […]

It’s hard to remember how the world of computers was before the introduction of Microsoft Windows. On Nov. 20, 1985, Microsoft announced a new idea for MS-DOS computers, a graphical interface that would let people use computers without having to type in commands. That idea was Windows, but it wasn’t much like the Windows you’re […]

DALLAS—Sometimes unanimity is refreshing, but not when panel after panel at the Metro Ethernet Foundation’s GEN15 conference here delivers the same depressing news. Despite all the work that’s been done to improve enterprise and network security, the picture is far worse today than at any time in the past. Timothy Wallach, supervisory special agent from […]

DALLAS—Over the past year it’s safe to say that both metro and global Ethernet are exploding. According to numbers released to the press at the Metro Ethernet Foundation’s GEN15 conference here, wide area versions of Ethernet are showing 100 percent growth year over year. Most of the growth is in networks delivering bandwidth of 1 […]

Shortly after the attack on the Bataclan theater in Paris began on Nov. 14, Benjamin Cazenoves found himself in the floor of the concert hall, wounded. He sent a Facebook message that he was hurt bad, and that the terrorists were still killing people. His friends saw the message and immediately began sending Tweets to […]

Back in May before Windows 10 was generally available, Microsoft executives promised a new set of features for the new OS that would make life easier for business users—particularly corporate IT managers. This was important at the time if only because Windows 8.1 was almost universally ignored by business users. Finally, it seemed, the company […]

WASHINGTON—Saying that losses due to cyber-attacks could cost the U.S. economy more than $400 billion this year, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) argued passionately for final approval of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which was passed by the Senate at the end of October. Quoting studies from the McAfee on the costs of cyber-crime, Feinstein listed […]

The Federal Communication Commission’s decision not to require Websites to honor “do not track” browser settings has not deterred Consumer Watchdog‘s plans to get some sort of federal protection against Web user tracking. The FCC announced its decision on Nov 6, saying that even though its reclassification of the Internet allowed it to treat Internet […]

Microsoft will start deploying its much anticipated fall 2015 Windows 10 update to computers around the world starting Nov. 10. However, not every Windows 10 user is looking forward to the update. Many corporate and business users—particularly IT managers—are all concerned about the havoc that the update might wreak on the performance of their applications […]