Wayne Rash

One of the biggest risks in business is in finding out whom you can trust. When Target was breached, the company found out that it shouldn’t have trusted its HVAC contractor. Now, T-Mobile is finding out that it shouldn’t have trusted its credit reporting bureau. At first, the reports last week that T-Mobile customer data […]

By now, you probably know that most of the claims surrounding Hillary Clinton’s email problems are bogus, with the exception of a few that are total hogwash. I won’t go into exhaustive detail here, since I’ve already done that. But now, as the drip-drip of revelations grows, it’s worth noting that it doesn’t have to […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee has started a week dense with cyber-security hearings and other cyber concerns with questions about the intent by the White House to take security seriously. Perhaps coincidentally, late last week President Barack Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and reached an understanding of some sort about Chinese spying on […]

The long-awaited credit card liability shift happens on Thursday, Oct. 1, and for many businesses and consumers, it will be a total surprise. Despite articles describing the coming change in who has to pay for purchases made with counterfeit cards that have been running for years, and despite announcements from the president of the United […]

AUSTIN, Texas—”IT Pros are hard to reach,” explained Jay Hallberg as we talked in the press room of the SpiceWorld conference here. Hallberg was answering my questions about how a company such as Spiceworks, which gives its products away for free, manages to stay in business. It’s the elusive nature of the IT professionals who […]

AUSTIN, Texas—The annual SpiceWorld conference here, known mostly for costumed users, orange dinosaurs and wacky events took an unexpected turn. Actually more than one. Not only did the company get a new CEO while keeping the old one, the company known for giving away its products for free has now started giving away services for […]

By now you certainly know that Volkswagen, AG of Germany has been caught fudging emissions test results for its cars with diesel engines. Engineers with the California Air Resources Board found during compliance testing that while VW cars with diesel engines passed the standard emissions tests, they failed when subjected to real-world driving tests. What […]

David Waldrop and I were sitting in the National Press Club’s legendary Truman Lounge watching two huge television screens showing CNN’s coverage of the second Republican debate. Sitting on a table in front of us was a laptop computer running Linux and a data analysis tool called LUX2016 and it was getting as much attention […]

The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings Sept. 16 on proposed updates to the Stored Communications Act, a relic of the mid-1980s, which is a part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Committee members asked various stakeholders what they thought should be done to update that part of the ECPA. As is the case with […]

According to the folks at Bechtel, the engineering mega-corporation that builds the world’s biggest projects, something like 70 percent of all people will live in urban centers by 2050. Today, according to the United Nations, that number is just over half of the population. To support that vast increase in urban populations, those cities must […]

It’s impossible to state accurately just how many devices are connected to the Internet. For one thing, the number changes by the minute as connections grow. For another, many if not most of those devices work quietly in the shadows simply doing their jobs and not attracting attention. On my three-hour drive from my office […]

Imagine that Apple instead of Microsoft designed the Surface Pro and you’ll have a good idea of what to expect with the iPad Pro. Both tablets are about the same size and thickness and both have an optional magnetic keyboard. Both devices have an active stylus, but Microsoft is a standard feature, while Apple’s is […]