Wayne Rash

Your buying experience with Puget Systems will likely start with an interview. A Puget specialist will want to know exactly how you will want to use your workstation, and the questions will be detailed. When I called them, the questions focused on not only the general types of task, but the specifics. What software was […]

As you would expect with an update to Apple’s iOS, there are some cool new features to try out on your iPhone or iPad. But the big news about iOS 12 is elsewhere. Unlike previous releases where older products bogged down and instability rose, the new version of Apple’s mobile operating system is intended to […]

Thirteen years ago, Hurricane Katrina was the first real test of wireless infrastructure in the U.S. handling a major disaster, and it didn’t go well. Three of the major carriers were off the air, cell towers that were still standing had no power, switching centers were under water, and the city of New Orleans was […]

The fact that Apple was going to announce new iPhones on Sept. 12 was not a secret, and Apple didn’t really try to make it one, which means that nearly everyone already knew that the new devices would be called the iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max. We also knew that Apple was going to […]

Not long after you read this, a major hurricane is expected to make landfall along the Carolina coast, probably near the historic city of Wilmington, NC. It’s unclear at this point whether hurricane will strike as a Category 4 hurricane or will make landfall as a Category 5, but that hardly matters because either way […]

A Washington-based watchdog group, the Campaign for Accountability, is reporting that it was able to post a series of ads on Google sites that emulated the activities of Russian trolls.  The ads used divisive images and wording taken from or inspired by similar ads that ran during the 2016 presidential election and they were purchased […]

Senior executives from Facebook and Twitter testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that they have made progress in purging fake accounts that were the source foreign efforts to influence the 2016 election campaign.  But they called for greater cooperation with government, industry and cyber-security experts to identify future threats and attempts to meddle […]

You may not have heard of a fileless malware attack, but despite its obscurity, it’s a real and serious threat.  Furthermore, fileless malware makes up about 70 percent of executables that are unknown to reputation services, according to SentinelOne’s Enterprise Risk Index Report for the 2018 first half. This means that antivirus software that depends […]

Every telecom merger has opponents. There are interest groups that oppose virtually all mergers as a matter of course. There are competitors who worry that a merger will hurt them and there are companies, including large customers, who think a merger might be bad, even if they can’t demonstrate why. But what’s less common are […]

MANASSAS, VA – Virginia governor Ralph Northam helped executives from Micron Technology break ground on a new manufacturing facility in this city of 43,000 near Washington, DC Aug. 29, saying that the $3 Billion dollar investment is the largest ever in Virginia by a private company. Micron already has a large manufacturing facility here that […]