Wayne Rash

A new vulnerability reported by Microsoft that allows an attacker to install malware and then execute it while bypassing the user’s security is the best reason yet to move away from Windows XP if you’re still among the millions of users who haven’t moved to something newer. But the remote code execution vulnerability affects every […]

Before the Federal Communications Commission even had a chance to look at the revised Open Internet rules being proposed by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, the agency was already being slammed by advocacy groups on what they thought he might propose. In fact Common Cause was calling the proposal “a major step backward.” Those rules would […]

There’s no question that other smartphone vendors are trying to kick BlackBerry when it’s down. Nothing highlights this more than a new how-to video appearing on Nokia’s official UK blog that demonstrates how to move your information from a BlackBerry device to a Nokia Lumia mobile handset running Windows Phone 8. The video demonstrates the […]

In the same week that wireless carriers and the CTIA wireless association announced an agreement to support the inclusion of a smartphone “Kill Switch,” a major consumer advocacy group reported that a record number of phones had been stolen the previous year. A number of critics have suggested that the CTIA agreement is too little, […]

Google’s announcement to developers that it would introduce the Ara, a new modular smartphone that would cost $50 in its most basic form has grabbed the blogosphere’s attention in a huge way. There’s a good reason. The idea of being able to swap out phone modules is incredibly cool for all of us geeks. There […]

I was reading Michelle Maisto’s well-researched and well-written story about how enterprises are slowly moving away from BlackBerry as the standard for secure mobile communications. While I was doing this, I was waiting for the new BlackBerry Z30 GSM phone to restart—a process that was taking far longer than it should. This device that I’m […]

Every day brings new reports of the threats posed by the Heartbleed bug. But the discovery of Heartbleed has also unearthed a scandal that’s plagued the open-source community for years. The scandal is that giant enterprises are doing nothing to contribute to the development, testing and validation of the free software on which they depend. […]

According to our report on the discovery of a significant vulnerability to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption service as it’s implemented in some versions of Linux, an exploit could reveal up to 64 kilobytes of memory in the affected server. The good news is that the OpenSSL Project issued a fix almost immediately, and […]

Last time we checked, nearly 30 percent of Windows users were still running XP. This was despite the dire warnings from Microsoft that security updates would stop, leaving the affected computers vulnerable to attack by malware developers. Now that the time has come, some are suggesting that hoards of malware will descend on your computer, […]

The public break-up by BlackBerry against T-Mobile has left onlookers bewildered, because of its apparent suddenness and because it seems destined to hurt BlackBerry far more than anything that might happen to T-Mobile. If things go as they are now, BlackBerry is dumping T-Mobile as a carrier by the end of April. Although this looks […]

LAS VEGAS—I’m writing this at a table in the Media Room down the hall from the show floor of a rapidly diminishing Interop. Around me are marketing and public relations representatives discussing things like software-defined networks, virtualized network functions and virtualized servers. If I walk out into the noisy, crowded trade show floor, I find […]

LAS VEGAS—Ask pretty much anybody who is in the process of moving some business operations to the cloud exactly what they think the cloud is, and the chances are you’ll get a different answer from each one. This is, as you might expect, a problem when it comes to moving critical business functions to the […]