Wayne Rash

Over the weekend, we received word that Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who chairs the House Oversight and Reform Committee in Congress, had sent a letter to the White House regarding the use of a private email account by presidential advisor Ivanka Trump to conduct official business. The letter also asked about the use of the […]

It’s not exactly the Windows Update to end all updates, but it’s close. Windows 7 machines that downloaded the most recent round of official updates got one that doesn’t do much beyond telling you to stop using Windows 7. The way it’s supposed to work is that computers running Windows 7 will start getting pop-up […]

The European Union’s antitrust commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said that Alphabet, the parent corporation of Google, has been found in violation of European Union antitrust laws because of the way the company restricts advertising in its Adsense business unit. The fine, €1.5 billion, or about $1.7 billion, is in addition to fines levied against the company […]

When the new version of Microsoft Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise arrives in April, the most obvious changes will be a revised user interface that uses what the company calls an “acrylic” theme. There will be a new light theme to offset the dark theme that arrived earlier, and some aspects of the user interface, […]

When Edward Gibbon wrote in 1776 his then comprehensive history of what happened to Rome and the civilization it created, he probably never realized that “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” could just as easily have been about 21st century Facebook. But in fact, watching Facebook’s self-immolation is very much […]

On March 11, the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019 was introduced in the U.S. Senate in an effort to get control over the purchasing of insecure devices by the U.S. government. Until now, there have been no real security standards covering the purchasing of IoT devices, in large part because actual […]

[Editor’s note: This story was updated March 13, 2019 at 14:38 to add the latest news about grounding of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft by the FAA in the U.S. Here is the text of the FAA order.] The loss of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max-8 aircraft on March 10, coming as it happens […]

Matthew Jafarian was clearly excited as he described the success of the Miami Heat basketball team over the last year. But this wasn’t really about success on the court. It was about its huge success increasing ticket sales and revenue, despite the departure of the team’s big-name player, LeBron James, and the imminent departure of […]

On its face, Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook plans to move to a more privacy-oriented service seems like welcome news, given how he and his company have run roughshod over his users’ privacy since its founding. But now he’s saying that he wants to make personal interactions more private and secure, and that he wants […]

Microsoft is rolling out a brace of threat fighting capabilities for Windows 10 administrators that promise to bring the big guns of the company’s security experts, as well as its AI capabilities, to bear against attackers. The new services are Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Threat Experts, which is part of Windows Defender ATP. Both […]

It started in mid-October 2018, when Russian operatives of the Internet Research Agency started getting emails and direct messages on social media letting them know that the United States was watching them, that it knew their names and where they worked. Then, on Nov. 6, 2018, everything went dark for the Russians. The once-feared IRA […]

An insidious new series of cyber-attacks that redirect traffic intended for specific websites by changing their DNS records has resulted in the first emergency directive by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. This directive was followed in February by an alert by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) of a growing effort by […]