Wayne Rash

Your phone almost certainly has a SIM card located in a slot on the side or top of the device. It’s under a tiny hatch that you open with a special tool that came with your phone, or once you’ve lost that tool, it’s opened using a paper clip. The SIM itself looks a lot […]

I didn’t realize it at the time, but during what would normally have been a routine phone call to discuss an editorial assignment, I was given a look at the future. Back in the late ’90s, I was the editor of a technology supplement for The Washington Post. I had asked a number of people […]

Go to the Microsoft Website starting on July 13, and the message is clear. Upgrade time is near, and the company wants you to think about upgrading everything about your world, not just your copy of Windows. The Upgrade Your World link takes you to a list of nine extremely worthwhile charities, all of which […]

The news from the Office of Personnel Management on July 10 was something most people in Washington were looking for. The director of the office, Katherine Archuleta, announced that she was stepping aside in the wake of a series of increasingly dismaying revelations of breaches into OPM’s data systems. Initially the agency announced that as […]

Microsoft’s announcement July 8 that it is restructuring its phone business is hardly a surprise. The end of Microsoft’s long, strange journey into phones was foreshadowed by earlier comments from CEO Satya Nadella. What may have been a surprise was the size of the accounting charge and the size of the resulting layoffs. The $7.6 […]

MasterCard is experimenting with facial recognition as a layer of security for its credit card payments. The idea is that customers could use their smartphones to prove that they’re who they say they are when they’re making what the industry calls a “card not present” transaction. A good example of that type of transaction is […]

The expressions of alarm are all over the place. Suddenly people have discovered something called “WiFi Sense” that Microsoft is including in Windows 10 when it’s released at the end of July. Once the new version of Windows is released, this feature of Windows will have an impact on your wireless network security. So you […]

The email that Michael Becce shared with me certainly looked real. In the message he appeared to ask the CFO of the corporation he runs to send a large, but not unusually large wire transfer to a bank. “I need you to do a wire of 28,500USD to the attached account. Kindly let me know […]

The Federal Aviation Administration has decided the time has come to take a close look at the security of its data systems. These systems, which include networks that help the agency run the air traffic control system, send radar images to flight controllers and control connections to the radios that keep flight controllers in touch […]

The news carried by Reuters on Thursday, June 25, that two self-driving cars from rival makers almost had an accident during a lane-change maneuver on a street in Palo Alto, Calif., may be the most encouraging recent news to come from the growing effort to develop autonomous vehicles. The key word here is “almost.” The […]