Wayne Rash

I was standing in line at a Walmart store in Fairfax, Va., when I spied the tell-tale slot in the credit card machine. Under the slot was a stylized image of part of a credit card with a chip. So when it was my turn I slipped one of my credit cards with an EMV […]

Finding the Regin malware on your network is sort of like getting an unexpected visit from the U.S. Navy’s Seal Team Six. You know somebody very powerful is thinking about you and you wish that you had somehow passed up the honor of its visit. Like those heavily-armed Navy special operations teams, Regin and its […]

Today’s malware of the moment, something called Regin, has just made the news because of an announcement by security researchers at Symantec. But it’s important to know that the only thing that’s new is Symantec’s announcement. Regin has actually been around for years, perhaps as long as a decade. In fact, I’d heard from senior […]

Chances are the Knightscope K5 security robot isn’t what you’d expect when you think about robots. But then again, when iRobot’s Roomba came out, it didn’t look like a robot either. What you see if you happen to pull into the right parking lot near San Francisco is a device that looks like a 5-foot […]

OXON HILL, Md.—Networking pioneer Bob Metcalfe warns that trying to impose network neutrality rules under Title II of the federal Communications Act is a bad idea because it will inevitably lead to taxation of Internet traffic. I interviewed Metcalfe while we were between meetings at the Metro Ethernet Forum’s GEN14 Carrier Ethernet event on Nov. […]

OXON HILL, Md.—The argument by network neutrality advocates that companies that require a lot of bandwidth should have the ability to pay for extra capacity is at the backbone of their position. That position, as reinforced by the White House, is that everything on the Internet should have exactly the same level of access. To […]

BlackBerry CEO John Chen took the long-anticipated step of announcing the next phase in its transition to a software company on Nov. 13 with a new partnership with former rival Samsung. The big news is that Samsung’s Knox enterprise security system will be integrated with the release of BlackBerry Enterprise Server 12 (BES12), due out […]

Marquett Smith, Verizon’s president for the Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., region was enthusiastic when he described what his company is giving away to mobile device users during Thanksgiving week. I suspect the reason for the excitement was because Verizon is breaking new ground by not insisting that the giveaway be limited to subscribers, and […]

Every so often here in Washington, D.C., you get the overwhelming urge to wish a pox on the houses of both sides of an issue. The current debate on network neutrality is one of those issues. Politicians on both sides of the network neutrality debate are turning what should be a discussion on finding ways […]

Over the course of the past five months, I’ve had the opportunity to review several smartphones aimed to appeal to business users, at least to some extent. A couple of those, including a Nokia Lumia that was sent to me to show off Microsoft’s personal assistant, Cortana, were sufficiently pathetic that I sent them back […]

TYSONS CORNER, Va.—Travel and event planning is, for the most part, woefully inefficient. In most companies it’s a totally manual process, often performed by staff that has little if any training and where the most automated part of the process might be a static Excel spreadsheet. Mistakes are frequent, costs are higher than they need […]

The advent of the holiday season isn’t looking great for brick-and-mortar retailers. Many of the biggest are so worried about sales that they’ve launched Black Friday, the traditional start of holiday gift buying, a month early—on Halloween. Retail market analysts are reporting that initial rosy sales predictions are probably wrong, according to reports in Bloomberg […]