Wayne Rash

A couple of weeks after the news broke that some celebrities’ intimate photos had been stolen from their iCloud accounts, Apple has provided a real fix. Now, those celebrities along with anyone else who doesn’t want their personal data pilfered can set up two-factor authentication (Apple calls this two-step verification) for their iCloud data. This […]

WASHINGTON—When a prestigious organization such as the Brookings Institution here in the nation’s capital decides to study civilian robotics, you know that at the very least the organization will present some thought-provoking views. In that sense, Brookings delivered. Unfortunately, the analysts who were delivering the results of their studies on the Future of Civilian Robotics […]

Apple is finding out that its soon-to-be-shipped iPhone 6 Plus is in even higher demand than the company thought it might be. The new phone, which is being offered at a higher price than the standard iPhone 6, has still sold out well in advance. Reports are coming in from all over the United States […]

WASHINGTON—I was having coffee with Angela Gunn, an old friend who is working as a security researcher these days. She was explaining some of the problems with traditional approaches to thinking about security. But she is focused on Hewlett-Packard’s latest push, which is to think like a bad guy trying to break into computer networks […]

To absolutely no one’s surprise, Apple announced the iPhone 6 on Sept. 9 in the usual over-the-top event, complete with a short concert by legendary rock band U2. There are actually two versions of the iPhone 6, the standard one and the 6 Plus, which has a larger screen, better battery life, and some features […]

After I wrote about the problem with Apple’s iCloud in which photos of some celebrities were compromised and stolen from their accounts, I received a number of suggestions as to what Apple should do about it. I’ll forget about the suggestions that are unprintable, but there were plenty of people who think Apple should do […]

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, […]