Wayne Rash

Cyber-attacks said to be from state-sponsored Chinese hackers underscore the reasons why U.S. companies and government agencies should rapidly adopt the measures outlined in President Barack Obama’s executive order on cyber-security signed on Feb. 12. Obama recounted the theft of a vast range of intellectual property, trade secrets and operational details during his State of […]

People in Great Falls, Mont., on Feb. 11 were startled to hear the raucous tones on their radios and televisions of the nationwide Emergency Alert System followed by an alert telling them that the dead were rising from their graves and attacking the living. In other words, northern Montana was having the first recorded Zombie […]

During his State of the Union Address on Feb. 12, President Obama announced he had signed an executive order that would allow federal agencies to share information with private industry about cyber-threats, attacks and the activities of known criminals and cyber-terrorists. The order would also allow federal agencies to receive information from private companies about […]

My daughter, a newly minted computer scientist and physicist, got up early on a Saturday (something nearly unheard of) and headed off to the Microsoft Store in Tyson’s Corner, Va., to buy a shiny new Microsoft Surface Pro with 128GB memory. Normally I’d have gone with her so I could get some photos of the […]

Back in January there was big news about a zero-day vulnerability in Java. This vulnerability would let the Bad Guys execute software on your computer, allowing them to (among other things) turn it into another zombie machine on a botnet. At the time, the recommendation was that users disable Java in their browsers. As you […]

It wasn’t until I started fiddling around with a Microsoft Surface RT that I found a huge feature hole that will keep many, if not most, Internet users from getting full value from this new tablet model. That huge hole is the inability of the Surface RT to work with Internet mail sites using POP […]

There’s been an astonishing amount of excitement stemming from an article in The Washington Post about an FCC plan that would ostensibly provide free, high-powered WiFi to every community in the United States. As much as I love The Washington Post and as much as I respect Cecelia Kang, who wrote the story, the fact […]

Clearwire’s filing of a preliminary proxy with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Feb. 1 makes it clear that the merger of Clearwire and Sprint Nextel is going to happen, absent some unlikely and unexpected roadblocks. The statements made by the companies subsequent to the proxy filing also make it clear that the proposal by […]

The BlackBerry 10 launch event was one of those conflicted events that seem to dog the smartphone maker. On one hand, it was good to see that BlackBerry had finally developed the device to the point that it’s solid enough that the company feels confident in releasing it. On the other hand, this wasn’t the […]

Normally, when an operating system receives what is called a “dot” upgrade, it’s usually considered a fairly major product refresh, in contrast to a “dot dot” upgrade, which is usually reserved for minor fixes. So the release of Apple’s iOS 6.1 could reliably be expected to be a major upgrade compared with say, iOS 6.0.1. […]