Wayne Rash

DALLAS—Over the past year it’s safe to say that both metro and global Ethernet are exploding. According to numbers released to the press at the Metro Ethernet Foundation’s GEN15 conference here, wide area versions of Ethernet are showing 100 percent growth year over year. Most of the growth is in networks delivering bandwidth of 1 […]

Shortly after the attack on the Bataclan theater in Paris began on Nov. 14, Benjamin Cazenoves found himself in the floor of the concert hall, wounded. He sent a Facebook message that he was hurt bad, and that the terrorists were still killing people. His friends saw the message and immediately began sending Tweets to […]

Back in May before Windows 10 was generally available, Microsoft executives promised a new set of features for the new OS that would make life easier for business users—particularly corporate IT managers. This was important at the time if only because Windows 8.1 was almost universally ignored by business users. Finally, it seemed, the company […]

WASHINGTON—Saying that losses due to cyber-attacks could cost the U.S. economy more than $400 billion this year, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) argued passionately for final approval of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which was passed by the Senate at the end of October. Quoting studies from the McAfee on the costs of cyber-crime, Feinstein listed […]

The Federal Communication Commission’s decision not to require Websites to honor “do not track” browser settings has not deterred Consumer Watchdog‘s plans to get some sort of federal protection against Web user tracking. The FCC announced its decision on Nov 6, saying that even though its reclassification of the Internet allowed it to treat Internet […]

Microsoft will start deploying its much anticipated fall 2015 Windows 10 update to computers around the world starting Nov. 10. However, not every Windows 10 user is looking forward to the update. Many corporate and business users—particularly IT managers—are all concerned about the havoc that the update might wreak on the performance of their applications […]

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 […]