Wayne Rash

It would be easy to say that 2019 is going to be the year of the state-sponsored hacker, but it would also be easy to say that this year is going to be the year of the cryptojacker. Or I could say that this is the year when cross-site scripting is going to be a […]

Fierce opposition from local politicians, community activists and union leaders has led Amazon to drop its plans to develop a second headquarters in New York City. The huge online retailer on Feb. 14 canceled its plans to build a large corporate campus in New York City after facing a stern backlash from an alliance of […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Feb. 11 intended to give backing to the role of the U.S. government in artificial intelligence development. The order, which is described in a fact sheet provided by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, lays out the American AI Initiative. The initiative contains five […]

Amazon executives responsible for the company’s planned move to create a headquarters on the East Coast appear to be rethinking their decision when it comes to the New York location. In November, Amazon announced plans to expand the headquarters for the ecommerce giant to locations in Arlington, Va. and to Queens, N.Y. Each location would […]

All 66 of the new Iridium Next constellation of satellites are fully operational and are available globally. They are replacing the older Iridium satellites, which will be de-orbited in the coming months, and while they will work with existing ground equipment, they provide substantially improved capabilities. Those new capabilities include much better bandwidth than other […]

A three-judge federal panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit heard oral arguments on Feb. 1 about whether the Federal Communications Commission had acted properly when it had reclassified ISPs under Title II of the Communications Act. Previously in 2015, the FCC had changed the classification of ISPs from Title II […]

NEWS ANALYSIS: New and more egregious behavior by the social network seems to be revealed on a weekly basis as Facebook finds more ways to abuse user trust while insinuating itself into their lives. On Jan. 17, a remarkable story appeared on the cover of Time in which investor Roger McNamee, an early backer of […]

Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker announced Jan. 28 that the Department of Justice has filed charges against Huawei Technologies Co. and its CFO, Meng Wanzhou, for a series of alleged criminal acts, including bank fraud, conspiracy, money laundering, obstruction of justice and fraud, against the United States. The company has also been charged in […]

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella renewed his company’s call for privacy on a global basis at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Speaking during an on-stage interview on Jan. 24, Nadella said that he sees privacy as a basic human right. He also said that he hopes the United States can adopt privacy laws similar […]

We’ve been hearing stories about airborne deliveries by autonomous drones for a few years now. The Amazon drone is already a staple of technology stories. But it looks like another drone-like delivery method might end up being the one that is actually used. It’s the delivery drone that Amazon has just announced, called the Amazon […]

European regulators have fined Google and its parent company Alphabet €50 million in response to a complaint filed on May 25, 2018 saying that Google failed to meet the requirements of the GDPR in regard to its privacy practices. In this case, the complaint was in regard to the company’s Android mobile software, and it […]

As you read this, there’s a virtual certainty that nation-state actors who intend to harm the United States have already invaded critical networks and computing facilities. Those same actors may have begun downloaded secure databases, they may be traversing networks looking for classified information, and they may be laying traps for federal workers when they […]