Wayne Rash

A report from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) provides a detailed look at how alleged Russian attackers planned and executed a long-term cyber-attack against unprepared energy installations.  The attacks started by compromising a partner and then using the partner’s IT systems to stage an attack on the ultimate-power generation stations.  “DHS and FBI […]

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki caught the tech community off guard Tuesday when she announced that the video-sharing service owned by Google parent Alphabet would begin posting Wikipedia entries next to conspiracy theory videos in an effort to give viewers a heads-up that the claims might be bogus.  About the same time, Google, which is also […]

Since mid-November 2017, Singapore-based Broadcom has been trying to convince Qualcomm’s leadership and shareholders to accept its $117 billion bid to acquire the U.S. producer of mobile device chips and wireless networking technology. Broadcom’s goal was to reach a date certain for Qualcomm shareholders to vote on its slate of corporate directors who would act […]

A new type of storage that’s now becoming available for use in data centers will significantly improve the speed of storage, reducing processor wait times, improving latency and saving and retrieving data many times faster than today’s SSDs.  This new type of storage, called 3D Xpoint (pronounced cross-point) uses stacked memory cells that depend on […]

The high-flying crypto-currency market in the U.S. will get its wings clipped if federal regulators have anything to say about it.  In a March 7 statement, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton announced that the agency’s enforcement branch would begin looking at crypto-currency exchanges as well as at Initial Coin Offerings of crypto-currencies. The […]

Microsoft’s March 5 announcement about the integration of Azure Stack and Azure Government is important to enterprises of all kinds—not just government agencies—because it creates a hybrid cloud service that doesn’t need access to the outside world.  The combined services allow government cloud users to take advantage of cloud technology while also meeting requirements for […]

The images go on from page after page in a new staff report from the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology detailing Russian efforts to influence public opinion on hot button domestic issues in the U.S. related to energy use and production.  The images came from posts and advertising that ran on Facebook, Instagram […]

You already know how to tell the difference between someone you know well, perhaps your spouse or long-time friend and a stranger that might try to impersonate them. You recognize the timbre of their voice, the speech patterns that are unique to them. You know little characteristics like how they hold a phone or how […]

U.S. Supreme Court justices heard arguments Feb 27  in the Department of Justice’s effort to overturn a decision by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that found that the government did not have the authority to demand information stored on a Microsoft owned server located in Ireland.  Two conservative justices, Chief […]

The reports that Nigerian criminals have managed to bilk businesses out of billions of dollars through sophisticated business email compromise schemes is alarming.  What’s more alarming is that the hackers managed to break into the email accounts of accounts payable staff and modify the settings on their email accounts to hide their activities and to […]