Wayne Rash

About

Wayne Rash is a content writer and editor with a 35-year history covering technology. He’s a frequent speaker on business, technology issues and enterprise computing. He is the author of five books, including his most recent, "Politics on the Nets." Rash is a former Executive Editor of eWEEK and a former analyst in the eWEEK Test Center. He was also an analyst in the InfoWorld Test Center and editor of InternetWeek. He's a retired naval officer, a former principal at American Management Systems and a long-time columnist for Byte Magazine.

Why Marriott Breach Includes Some Valuable IT Lessons

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 […]

Yes, You Can Let Europeans View Your Website

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 P520 Workstation Is a Single-Processor Powerhouse

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 […]

FCC Launches New Offensive Against Scam, Robo Calls

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 […]

T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Clock to Resume Dec. 4

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 Precision 3630 Tower Workstation: Affordable Performance

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. […]

What Happens When Your Data Gets Redirected to China

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 […]

Yes, Virginia, There Is an Amazon Coming to You

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 […]

Apple’s New iPad Pro Is All Screen

In one fell swoop, Apple delivered nearly everything observers had been hoping for and what Apple fans had been wishing for in the new iPad Pro. The result is a pair of business tablets with no space wasted on bezels or buttons. Accompanying the new iPad Pros are a new version of the Apple Pencil […]

Manipulated WH Video Underscores Risk of Deep Fakes for Enterprises

I was watching a White House press conference on Nov. 7 when CNN reporter Jim Acosta got into a heated discussion with President Donald Trump over some questions relating Russian election-meddling investigations. The interaction was memorable because of some name-calling on the part of the president and some verbal pushback on the part of Acosta. […]