Wayne Rash

Representatives of the 28 states of the European Union approved the final version of the Privacy Shield agreement between the United States and the EU on July 8. This is the final step before the agreement is formally adopted by the European Commission, which is expected to happen during the week of July 11. The […]

The fatal collision between a Tesla Model S operating in its Autopilot mode and a tractor-trailer hauling blueberries on a Florida highway was due to a series of errors, which is the case in many if not most serious traffic accidents. Now, as federal investigators from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and from Tesla […]

Lenovo has confirmed that reports of a critical vulnerability in the UEFI (unified extensible firmware interface) in its ThinkPad computers are accurate and it is currently investigating the problem. Lenovo released a statement on June 30 verifying there is a vulnerability in the ThinkPad’s System Management Mode (SMM) BIOS that was introduced by one of […]

BUDAPEST—A number of security companies with some of the newest and most effective technology available for fighting cyber-threats against enterprises are working outside the United States and some of its closest allies. The reasons aren’t particularly surprising, given the attention in Europe to the efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to force Apple to […]

“At first, I thought most of our customers would want a hybrid cloud design,” David Potts explained as he outlined the architecture of his Saleswarp retail automation software. But soon Potts, CEO and founder of Saleswarp, found that everyone preferred a version that ran entirely in the cloud. It turns out that by going to […]

BUDAPEST—There is a consistent factor that will often be discovered in the aftermath of many of today’s data breaches and network breach attempts. It’s the first phase of the attacks that few notice, because it starts as a phishing email that attempts to get the login credentials for a privileged network user. In many cases, […]

The cost of deception has reached new heights in a settlement Volkswagen reached with the U.S. and California regulators on June 28 to fix or buy back diesel autos that were programmed to fudge standard pollution emission tests. Original estimates of the cost to VW of building an emission test “defeat device” into its diesel […]

When the Federal Aviation Administration first released rules for operating drones, they were for drones operated by hobbyists, and they were very similar to the rules for flying model aircraft. Commercial uses were possible, but required a burdensome approval process that many ignored, choosing to fly their drones illegally. Worse, anyone operating a drone had […]

When a majority of the citizens of the United Kingdom voted to withdraw from the European Union, the outcome seemed to be a shock to nearly everyone. But as soon as the votes were counted, all sorts of pronouncements were rapidly aired, nearly all without any basis in fact. The reason for the lack of […]

The battle of the digital assistants will begin again in earnest in the fall of 2016 when the latest version of Apple’s Siri hits the street with iOS 10. But this time it also will hit the streets with MacOS Sierra and with the Apple TV. This latest version of Siri will be the first […]