Wayne Rash

The latest news about the massive data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management indicates there may be even more personal records at risk than previously disclosed. Even more alarming is that it appears that the OPM’s attempts to fix the problem may be adding even more risk, which suggests that federal officials don’t […]

Microsoft has tried a few times recently to explain the company’s upgrade policy in regards to Windows 10 for a variety of users. In the process, the explanations caused great confusion and led to all sorts of speculation as to what Microsoft really has in mind. It was confusing partly because there’s no single process […]

Verizon Lures News Media With Beer and Father’s Day Toys by Wayne Rash Getting a Kick Out of Father’s Day This is the Adidas MiCoach Smart Ball, which is an instrumented soccer ball to help dedicated forwards improve their goal kicking skills. The ball communicates with your Android or iOS device. Notably, this isn’t the […]

The Federal Communications Commission is planning to whack wireless leader AT&T with the largest fine the Commission has ever levied, some $100 million, a senior FCC official stated in media briefing on June 17. The proposed fine, outlined in a Notice of Apparent Liability, is for alleged violations of the FCC’s Transparency Rule. The FCC […]

National Maker Faire in Washington Goes Far Beyond 3D Printing by Wayne Rash HP Shows Off Its New Sprout 3D Workstation While many applications in the Maker world are decidedly home-brew efforts, not all of them are. Hewlett-Packard is an early entry with the HP Sprout creative workstation. And, yes, next to the computer is […]

The news about the data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management keeps getting worse by the day. How much worse? On June 12, the Associated Press reported that the number of personnel records that may have been pilfered in a stealthy cyber-attack is as high as 14 million. Meanwhile, The Washington Post is […]

It’s a rare happy day here in Washington. While the Congress was at loggerheads about a trade deal, the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia has turned down a motion by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) that would block implementation of the Federal Communications Commission order placing Internet service providers under Title II […]

Howard County, Md.—I’m standing in a compound surrounded by enough mechanized equipment that it looked like a military operation preparing for battle. To be more exact, it was a compound occupied by what might seem like a herd of farm animals. In front of me, parked next to a huge red tractor-trailer was a COW, […]

Oxon Hill, MD— It should be no surprise when marketing executives for security vendors say that whatever it is their company sells is the best way to bolster data security. That is, after all, their job. That view certainly prevailed at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit held at Gaylord Convention Center just outside […]

In one sense, the breach of some 4 million personnel records from the Office of Personnel Management earlier this year probably isn’t going to put the financial information of a lot of federal employees at risk. That’s the good news. But the rest of the news is very bad. With a few exceptions, essentially every […]