Wayne Rash

The other unlicensed shoe has dropped and stirred confusion as it makes its first bounce. At the end of October, a group of cable companies and big tech companies including Microsoft and Google had a meeting with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler in which they complained about non-WiFi use of unlicensed spectrum. In their […]

Today’s call came the same way it has almost daily for the last couple of weeks. Shortly after I got to my desk, the phone rang, and a voice with a thick South Asian accent said, “This is Windows support…” Then it went on to tell me that my computer was infected with all sorts […]

“I don’t have to run faster than the bear,” one hunter said to another after spotting the animal in the woods, “I just have to run faster than you.” Yes, I know it’s an old joke that you’ve heard enough times that I don’t really need to quote anything except the punch line. But the […]

The future of the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet order is in the hands of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The panel heard arguments on Dec. 4 challenging the FCC’s decision to reclassify the Internet as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act. Challengers […]

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 […]