Wayne Rash

It’s not clear whether Apple intentionally echoed Stanley Kubrick’s black monolith from the 1968 movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” but the nearly featureless space gray block looks faintly ominous as the new Mac Mini rests on top of a Lenovo workstation. But it’s certainly not featureless. There’s a shiny Apple logo on top, a single […]

Imagine, if you would, that your organization’s security was being handled as well as election security in the United States before the 2018 elections. Now, once you’ve wrapped your head around that, imagine adding the concept of “flogging” to your employee handbook. The reason these two things go together is that if a corporate board […]

For the vast majority of small businesses, IT support means taking time away from an employee who is already doing something else to solve a problem that the employee may or may not have any idea how to fix. In many cases, it means hours spent on a tech support line, more hours waiting for […]

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Apple took over a century-old opera house here Oct. 30 to announce some of the company’s most important product announcements in recent years. The long-neglected MacBook Air and the also-neglected Mac Mini were finally improved to a point where they can compete with existing hardware from other manufacturers. In addition, iPad Pros […]

The Oct. 26 announcement by the UK’s information commissioner that Facebook will be fined £500,000 ($644,000 US) is only the first step in what looks to be a series of fines that the social network will face for failing to protect the privacy of its users. While the monetary hit amounts to little more than […]

Speaking in the well of the European Parliament in the Espace Léopold in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct. 24, Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered a forceful call for a global movement to protect privacy similar to what the European Union has done with the General Data Protection Regulation, which went into effect in May. Calling privacy […]

Google has been working with political campaigns in the United States and Europe to combat a series of threats, including phishing attacks, fake news, deep fakes such as manufactured videos and other methods of improper influence of the political process. Phishing was a particular problem during the presidential campaign of 2016, when hackers used a […]

Facebook announced Oct. 18 that the company has set up a war room at its offices in Menlo Park, Calif., to monitor efforts to interfere with national elections in the United States and Brazil. According to the announcement, the war room is staffed by more than two dozen experts from throughout the company, including from […]

When Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulation took effect in May, Apple promised its users in other areas, notably the United States, that it would provide similar services this year. That time has come. As of Oct. 17, Apple customers can download the data that Apple has on them simply by asking, just like Apple customers […]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder could have easily been talking about today’s disasters when he wrote the now famous phrase: “No plan survives first contact with the enemy.” When he wrote that, von Moltke was writing about the battle plans of the Prussian military in 1880, but the advice is timeless. More important, it’s just […]