Wayne Rash

During the holiday period between Christmas and New Year’s in 2018, workers at a Tribune Co. newspaper location in South Florida found out that they couldn’t upload late-breaking sports scores to the portion of their CMS that handles printing and distribution. Later, other newspapers in the Tribune chain discovered other problems related to the printing […]

2018 was a banner year in cybersecurity. The breaches were many, the remedies were few, and the cost of doing nothing went up. But there is hope on the horizon as new methods of authentication are beginning to show up, old practices are discarded, and as the threat landscape becomes clearer. But the risks are […]

The California Highway Patrol was on the case immediately after seeing a Tesla Model S blowing through the speed limit at 70 miles per hour near Redwood City, but despite their best efforts, they couldn’t get the driver to pull over. The driver of this car seemed to be asleep, and no amount of noise […]

Social media giant Facebook has upheld one of its promises to its users––that it would never sell their personal data––but only because the company was giving it away for free instead. Even then, it considered selling it until deciding that the backlash would be a problem. Instead, according to a report in The New York […]

The series of reports to the Senate Intelligence Committee detailing efforts by the Russian government to use social media to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential elections is breathtaking, but not in a good way. The Russian Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg demonstrated a sophisticated knowledge of how to use social media to sow dissention […]

The first time I heard about a series of emailed bomb threats was early in the day on Dec. 13, when I got a note from a security researcher letting me know about it. After that, I found stories about more such threats here in the Washington area and elsewhere. A quick look at the […]

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 […]