Wayne Rash

WASHINGTON, D.C.–You’d never guess that the nondescript townhouse on a leafy street near the White House held what is one of the most effective federal agencies in this town. But once you enter, your attention is immediately drawn to the casually-dressed staff meeting around a coffee table, and to another group working on communal tables […]

Over the past four years, the cost of internet crime has topped $7 billion, according to the FBI’s latest Internet Crime Report. And that’s just the crimes that have been reported to the FBI. Steven D’Antuono, the FBI’s Financial Crimes Section chief, says there are a lot more that go unreported and that’s a problem. […]

When the FBI released its 2018 Internet Crime Report on April 22, one topic appeared as the very first of the hot topics that should give business leaders reason to pause. There, as the first of the report’s hot topics, was Business Email Compromise. This is a type of scam that’s specifically aimed at businesses […]

DNS Hijacking has been around for a while. Initially it began as a way for the bad guys to take you to a fake website so that your credit card info could be stolen, or so that you could be loaded with malware. But that’s changed to the point where you might never know that […]

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, standing at the White House with U.S. President Donald J. Trump and surrounded by several representatives of interest groups outfitted with hard hats and tower-climbing gear, said April 12 that the agency was stepping up its commitment to the expansion of 5G communications. Pai said that the new initiative, the 5G […]

The story really starts the day before somebody attempted to gain access to my social media accounts. I got pinged in an email from a credit-card issuer with the dreaded “Fraud Alert” subject line. I was already at my desk, so it took only seconds to look at the email and confirm that it appeared […]

Sometime in the next decade you can expect something on the order of 16,000 satellites to be operating in low Earth orbit and providing internet access to anyone with the ability to access them. Those internet satellites would be interconnected into a global mesh that would include a series of ground stations located around the […]

Verizon Wireless turned on its first 5G cell sites on April 3, 2019, a week earlier than expected. The company reports that its ultra wideband service is available in Chicago, in areas near the Loop and other areas near downtown, including the Magnificent Mile and the Gold Coast. In Minneapolis, the service is in the […]

It doesn’t really matter whether Yujing Zhang is a spy for the Chinese government, an enthusiastic sleuth or simply a misguided young woman who heard voices ordering her to fly from Shanghai to Florida and to attempt to talk to President Donald Trump on March 30. Whatever her motivation, she was clearly unprepared to carry […]

In an OpEd in The Washington Post over the weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he thinks the only way that the internet can become safe for everyone is for governments to regulate it. He says that the only way Facebook or other companies can possibly keep hate and violence off of the internet […]

Depending on how you look at it, the Intel technology known as Visualization of Internal Signals Architecture, or VISA, is either a feature or a bug. It exists in the Platform Controller Hub (PCH) of Intel-based computer systems, and it’s controlled by the Intel Management Engine. The role of the VISA technology is to provide […]

Sometime between June and November 2018, ASUS computers were subjected to an attack in which users downloaded and installed a fake update that contained malware. The attackers did this by pairing old ASUS update code from 2015 with a new security certificate, and then having the Live Update software download and install it. Once downloaded, […]