Wayne Rash

It started in mid-October 2018, when Russian operatives of the Internet Research Agency started getting emails and direct messages on social media letting them know that the United States was watching them, that it knew their names and where they worked. Then, on Nov. 6, 2018, everything went dark for the Russians. The once-feared IRA […]

An insidious new series of cyber-attacks that redirect traffic intended for specific websites by changing their DNS records has resulted in the first emergency directive by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. This directive was followed in February by an alert by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) of a growing effort by […]

It would be easy to say that 2019 is going to be the year of the state-sponsored hacker, but it would also be easy to say that this year is going to be the year of the cryptojacker. Or I could say that this is the year when cross-site scripting is going to be a […]

Fierce opposition from local politicians, community activists and union leaders has led Amazon to drop its plans to develop a second headquarters in New York City. The huge online retailer on Feb. 14 canceled its plans to build a large corporate campus in New York City after facing a stern backlash from an alliance of […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Feb. 11 intended to give backing to the role of the U.S. government in artificial intelligence development. The order, which is described in a fact sheet provided by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, lays out the American AI Initiative. The initiative contains five […]

Amazon executives responsible for the company’s planned move to create a headquarters on the East Coast appear to be rethinking their decision when it comes to the New York location. In November, Amazon announced plans to expand the headquarters for the ecommerce giant to locations in Arlington, Va. and to Queens, N.Y. Each location would […]

All 66 of the new Iridium Next constellation of satellites are fully operational and are available globally. They are replacing the older Iridium satellites, which will be de-orbited in the coming months, and while they will work with existing ground equipment, they provide substantially improved capabilities. Those new capabilities include much better bandwidth than other […]

A three-judge federal panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit heard oral arguments on Feb. 1 about whether the Federal Communications Commission had acted properly when it had reclassified ISPs under Title II of the Communications Act. Previously in 2015, the FCC had changed the classification of ISPs from Title II […]

NEWS ANALYSIS: New and more egregious behavior by the social network seems to be revealed on a weekly basis as Facebook finds more ways to abuse user trust while insinuating itself into their lives. On Jan. 17, a remarkable story appeared on the cover of Time in which investor Roger McNamee, an early backer of […]

Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker announced Jan. 28 that the Department of Justice has filed charges against Huawei Technologies Co. and its CFO, Meng Wanzhou, for a series of alleged criminal acts, including bank fraud, conspiracy, money laundering, obstruction of justice and fraud, against the United States. The company has also been charged in […]