Wayne Rash

These days my email is full of press releases from IT vendors that claimed their products are the magic bullet that will prevent the next Sony data breach. But the reality is, there is no magic bullet. But that doesn’t mean you can’t keep your company from being a victim of cyber-criminals—because you can. But […]

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to work with someone else at a monitor. It gets crowded with just one other person. With two or three more people, it becomes impossible. But suppose the monitor was built into the tabletop, and everyone can sit around it and offer input. The idea of group […]

BlackBerry on Dec. 17 formally released its latest hopeful attempt to stem the flow of customers to rival devices makers by introducing a thoroughly new phone that looks very much the company’s last successful mobile phone model, the much-loved BlackBerry Bold 9900. While the new BlackBerry Classic isn’t a copy of the Bold 9900, it […]

The Washington Post, Amazon, Cisco and other prominent companies have filed a total of 10 “Friend of the Court” briefs supporting Microsoft’s federal court appeal of a search warrant demanding the software company turn over emails stored in a server overseas. On Dec. 15, BSA, the Software Alliance teamed with the National Association of Manufacturers, […]

The Ford Motor Company has been struggling to get its Microsoft–based Sync system, which handles everything from voice recognition to navigation to running the stereo, to work properly. The Microsoft system has been in use at the company since 2007, and during that period, the company has faced everything from poor Consumer Reports grades to […]

Differences Are Mostly Skin Deep in Droid Turbo, Moto X Smartphones By Wayne Rash They Are Look-alike Phones on the Outside The Verizon Droid Turbo (left in black) and the Moto X (right in white) look a lot alike. They’re about the same size and almost the same weight. They run the same version of […]

Microsoft’s Dec. 8 appeal to federal court orders that it turn over the contents of an email stored on servers in Ireland moves to the next stages in a case that appears destined to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Whatever decision the U.S. Court of Appeals makes is certain to be […]

Ransomware is already bad enough, but if you’re careful, and quick, it can be eliminated from a computer without paying a ransom. And, of course, virus software is controllable if you know what you’re doing. But what about malware that contains characteristics of both? In other words, this is ransomware that spreads like a virus […]

Tom Chapman likes to quote the ancient Chinese general and military philosopher Sun Tzu when he’s talking about cyber-security. “If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles,” Chapman quotes from Chapter 3 of “The Art of War.” Chapman, who is director of cyber operations at EdgeWave […]

The idea that the government of North Korea is behind the recent attack on Sony Pictures almost reads like an effort to promote the upcoming movie, “The Interview.” In the movie, the Central Intelligence Agency sends two bumbling journalists on a mission to assassinate the North Korea dictator Kim Jong Il, a plot that has […]

RESTON, Va.—Frank Abagnale, Jr. seemed almost disappointed as we chatted about the low level of sophistication he’s observed in the system breaches he’s investigated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In reality, the breaches he’s investigated weren’t the result of some brilliant hack, but rather because someone created a vulnerability that a hacker exploited. “Someone […]

Bas Burger, the president of British Telecom in the Americas, wants to see the special access market regulated as a way to end the negative effects of the effective monopoly held by AT&T and Verizon in the U.S. Special access is communication that includes data and voice used by enterprises, carriers and others to connect […]