Wayne Rash

The sensationalized leak of embarrassing photos of movie stars and models that was being called a breach of Apple’s iCloud service wasn’t really a breach in the technical sense. Nothing that happened at Apple makes the cloud any more or less secure than it was already, which in the case of enterprise cloud services is […]

Security experts tell eWEEK that if an ongoing investigation confirms there has been a data breach at Home Depot, it was likely caused by the rapidly spreading Backoff malware. So far, all the company is saying is it may have been attacked but that it is still investigating whether a data breach actually took place. […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert to businesses throughout the United States about a malware infection that invades point-of-sale (POS) systems and sends the credit card information of people to cyber-criminals. The malware, which is being called Backoff by security researchers, operates by gaining access to POS systems through an administrator […]

Probably the best news about Windows 8.1 these days is that you don’t have to use it. Microsoft, having seen how disappointed its corporate users are about Windows 8, has relented from last year’s stance, and is allowing computer vendors to continue installing Windows 7 on new machines. This is a good thing because, otherwise, […]

The National Association of Broadcasters has filed suit in federal court in an effort to force the Federal Communications Commission to revise the rules for the 2015 spectrum auction. That auction would transfer access to some portions of the radio spectrum currently used for television broadcasts to wireless service providers. The spectrum auction includes two […]

Balance is BlackBerry’s secure mobile container application that’s both easy to implement and highly secure, while also allowing users to have access to a full range of smartphone features for personal use. In effect, BlackBerry Balance gives your smartphone a dual personality that’s easy to use but keeps work data and personal data totally separate. […]

There’s little doubt that the news from IDC on global smartphone sales was less than thrilling for smartphone operating system developers besides Google. The IDC quarterly report on smartphone shipments revealed that Android phones now make up nearly 85 percent of total global smartphone shipments as of the second quarter of 2014. Shipments of Apple […]

Sprint is in trouble. Customers are abandoning the nation’s third-largest carrier in droves. Efforts to grow by swallowing T-Mobile have been rebuffed. While the company has plenty of support from its new owners in Japan, much of its recent history has been a story of dysfunction. What’s worse, other CEOs are taunting the hapless company, […]

You know the honeymoon is over in any relationship when the taunts begin. You know it’s really over when those taunts are made public on Twitter. If there was ever any question whether T-Mobile’s brash CEO John Legere was getting over Sprint, that ended when he Tweeted, “If you needed just one more reason to […]

A European Commission spokesperson told eWEEK that the body is extremely concerned about a court decision in New York that orders Microsoft to turn over the contents of email contained on a server in Ireland to federal prosecutors. That decision would appear to place Microsoft in direct violation of Irish and European Union data protection […]

Sprint on Aug. 6 quietly shelved its plans to buy most of competitor T-Mobile two days after an announcement by the Federal Communication Commission that it was opposed to the two companies joining forces to bid on wireless spectrum in a 2015 auction. While the FCC’s position was a surprise to no one other than […]

In what may be the first of many blows to plans by T-Mobile and Sprint to merge, the Federal Communications Commission is saying that it is probably going to oppose the current plans by the two wireless providers to buy more spectrum together. In addition, in an official FCC blog entry, Roger C. Sherman, the […]