Wayne Rash

At first glance, the newest version of the standard 2018 iPad seems no different than the one it replaced. It’s the same size and weight, the screen is the same size at 9.7 inches diagonally and it comes in the same colors. But that sameness belies some real improvements, some of which move the new […]

In a week when Facebook desperately needed good news, most of what broke about the social network was anything but.  After a series of revelations about the vastness of the Cambridge Analytica data breach and acknowledgement that nearly all of Facebook’s 2.2 billion users have had their profile data scraped at one time or another, […]

The latest admissions by Facebook executives indicate that the personal information of virtually all of its 2.2 billion users could have been accessed by unauthorized third parties.  In a posting by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, the social network admitted that many third parties besides Cambridge Analytica had access to user personal data. Facebook increased its […]

Imagine someone running in to your office and reporting that the building is on fire. Also imagine that the person is dressed as a firefighter and that there’s a big red truck outside your building with a full firefighting crew. What would you do? If you were executives at Panera Bread, apparently you’d ignore the […]

Facebook has caught so much heat for its privacy practices, especially after the data breach that came at the hands of Cambridge Analytica, that the social network is actually making it easier to control privacy settings. Previously, users hate to navigate through a series of pages some of which were fairly hard to find when […]

The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has confirmed in a statement released on March 26 that the agency is moving forward with a plan to prevent carriers using equipment made in China from receiving funding from the Universal Service Fund.  The USF is a pool of about $8.5 Billion collected from communications users in […]

Facebook was already in a world of trouble following revelations that Cambridge Analytica used misappropriated data from users in its political ad targeting during the 2016 election.  Facebook user rage spiked and many voices called for investigations even as Mark Zuckerberg remained silent about the breach for five days before offering an explanation and apology. […]

The ransomware that has taken out many of the computers in the Atlanta, Ga. is well known by security researchers as the SamSam malware. It appears to be run by a single group of bad actors who use a common Bitcoin wallet and who are very effective at convincing their victims to pay up.  “SamSam […]

Facebook’s late and ineffective response to the breach of 50 million user profiles by Cambridge Analytica in 2014 has not only enraged many of its billions of users around the world, it has them wondering if they can trust the company to protect their data from commercial and political exploitation.  That outrage had many users […]

The revelations over Saint Patrick’s Day weekend that Facebook allowed a data mining company to gather the records of 50 million American users is just the most recent case in which the social network has failed to prevent access to user records.   Facebook has been the subject of previous privacy investigations by the Federal Trade […]