Wayne Rash

Back in my earliest days as a naval officer, when I was a midshipman, I received a series of briefings on ways that foreign intelligence agents might try to compromise me. Later in conversations with counter-intelligence officers of a three-letter agency, I learned more details on ways that government officials might be compromised—and also ways […]

The Federal Communications Commission has announced that it’s putting on hold a $4.53 billion payout to wireless broadband providers while it investigates charges that a major U.S. carrier has overstated its wireless coverage. The FCC grants are intended to help cover the cost for wireless providers to cover thinly populated areas. The amount a carrier […]

Microsoft President Brad Smith has taken the unusual step of asking the government to regulate its technology while it still can. At the same time, Smith said that Microsoft is placing limits on what its customers can do with some of its technology by prohibiting some uses in its terms of service. The technology in […]

It was the sort of picture-perfect launch that has now become routine for SpaceX, with a Falcon 9 rocket on its third trip into space carrying a pair of deployment vehicles from Spaceflight designed to safely launch dozens of satellites into their respective orbits. Among those satellites were several satellites devoted specifically to providing communications […]

While there’s still a lot we don’t know about the breach of a reservations database belonging to Marriott International, what we do know is encouraging. First, Marriott didn’t actually suffer a breach. Rather, Marriott’s role in the whole breach event–as confirmed to eWEEK by a Marriott spokesperson–was in discovering the breach and in taking corrective […]

The European Data Protection Board has good news for companies with websites that are not located in the European Union. It also has provided detailed guidelines to let companies located outside Europe know when they might be subject to the General Data Protection Regulation. As you know by now, the GDPR has some specific requirements […]

Lenovo’s P520 is a midrange, moderately priced workstation that features Intel Xeon processors, up to 256BG of memory and a choice of mass storage devices. Lenovo has included some of the same useful features that graced its bigger brandmate, the P920 workstation. Those features include a tool-free chassis, LEDs to indicate the location of USB […]

The Federal Communications Commission has launched an all-out war on robo-callers and scammers by hitting them at the network level. In a letter to U.S. voice carriers, both landline and wireless, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai asked each about their plans to move forward on ways to detect and block spoofed scam and robocalls. Pai is […]

The T-Mobile-Sprint merger shot clock is set to start counting again at Day 55, following a brief comment period opened by the Federal Communications Commission. The comment period ends on Dec. 4, and the shot clock will begin counting then. The FCC typically pauses merger considerations when the applicants submit a substantial quantity of new […]

Dell bills its Precision 3630 Tower workstation as having unmatched performance and affordability in a space-saving design. These claims are true. This professional workstation appears to be a squat package mainly because of its diminutive height, although it’s as wide as other workstations, but also because it consumes relatively little space from front to back. […]

For many companies, a nightmare scenario is to find that all of their network traffic is suddenly in the hands of an unfriendly power. This happened to Google on Nov. 12, when an employee at a small Nigerian internet service provider configured the border gateway protocol (BGP) filters of one of its network devices so […]

After 10 months of pondering its short list, Amazon has announced that it’s choosing two locations for its long-anticipated HQ2. Originally, the company had launched a competition for a single location outside of Seattle where it would build a new headquarters. That has changed, because the company now says it will build those locations in […]