Wayne Rash

WASHINGTON—The SINET security technology conference that convened Nov. 3 and 4 at the National Press Club here is one of those quiet little meetings that you rarely hear about, but which includes some of the top security thinkers and analysts in the world. This is mainly due to the fact that the conference is sponsored […]

A week ago I got a surprise in my email. Someone sent me a gift of malware that purported to be a scanned fax, but which really was a JavaScript file that would download malware to my computer if I clicked on it. Fortunately, my instincts took over and I was immediately suspicious of the […]

WASHINGTON—Once again, eWEEK worked with a group of big data analysis companies to track viewer sentiment and engagement during the most recent Republican presidential candidates’ debate televised on Oct. 28. This time, however, the analysts cast a much wider net to gather data that highlighted trends that were hinted at before, but not fully confirmed […]

I was working at my desk in the Advanced Network Computing Laboratory at the University of Hawaii 15 years ago when something struck me as very odd. My email inbox showed a series of emails, all with the subject line, “I Love You.” I glanced over my shoulder at my colleague, Oliver Rist, who was […]

Barring some potential, but unlikely, parliamentary maneuvers, the U.S. Senate will probably pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act the week of Oct. 26. The bill survived the procedural process last week, and if it’s approved by the full Senate, then Congress may consider a number of amendments intended to answer some of the most significant […]

Washington, D.C.—Hackers at all levels have new capabilities at their disposal, said Leo Taddeo, former special agent in charge of the Special Operations/Cyber Division of the FBI’s New York Field Office. Taddeo is now the chief security officer at Cryptzone, which is entering the U.S. market after years of successful growth in Europe. “Unfortunately,” he […]

It’s rare for witnesses invited by both political parties at a U.S. Congressional hearing to be in unanimous agreement—so rare that when I settled in to watch the testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business, I fully expected to see the committee and its witnesses at loggerheads regarding EMV card adoption. […]

The problem of irresponsible drone use in the United States has become so bad that the federal government is taking action with uncharacteristic dispatch. In a news conference at Department of Transportation (DOT) headquarters on Oct. 19, Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx said that a task force made up of government officials and stakeholder representatives […]

I walked into the T-Mobile store in Fairfax, Va., with my iPhone 6. This is the same phone I wrote about a year ago when I finally gave up my BlackBerry for an iPhone. I told the sales guy that I wanted to do a trade-in, and a few minutes later I had a new […]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can take heart from a real-time big data analysis of viewer sentiment during the Oct. 13 Democratic debate that showed the public liked her better after the debate was over than they did before it started. There was a substantial movement in overall positive sentiment that far exceeded that […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—When your job is to carry someone else’s messages, things can get complicated. This is why voice and data carriers make sure they’re meeting the requirements for getting messages or calls to where they’re supposed to go without losing them, and why they have meetings such as the Competitive Carriers Association annual meeting […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The young woman in the brown uniform looked at me suspiciously. “I need some photo identification,” she said. I glanced at her shoulder patch showing that she was with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and handed over my passport. Once she saw the document and confirmed (apparently to her disappointment) that I did, […]