Vagueness and The Beast of Gévaudan Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus Over 12 years, 100 people were reportedly attacked by a beast in the French countryside. Victims included men, [...]
AI..EI..OH! Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus AI (Artificial Intelligence) is everywhere these days. What comes to your mind when AI is mentioned, Skynet, Alexa, advanced medical diagnoses? Varying degrees of [...]
Amnesia and Normalcy Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus I mentioned this article on Wikipedia in an earlier blog. The idea of landscape amnesia mentioned that there is an interesting [...]
Your Employees are Your Biggest Cybersecurity Threat When it comes to cybersecurity, businesses have a lot to worry about, with the costs associated with protecting a network (or responding to failed attempts to protect your network) dominating these costs. While it [...]
When Is a Combination Lock Not a Combination Lock? Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus Sometimes you think you know something and you have known it for a long time and [...]
Five Reasonable Ways to Maximize Data Security By David Myers Data Privacy and Cyber Security Partner Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC (Provided in cooperation with Ashton Solutions and Sophos) As a small- to medium-size business owner, have you ever thought [...]
Ashton Solutions Response to Log4J Threat The following email was sent to all Ashton clients on December 14, 2021 PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY, IN ITS ENTIRETY. This is an urgent security bulletin about the Log4Shell security vulnerability making headlines this week. [...]
Are Your Smart Speakers Always Listening? Many people use smart speakers throughout their day-to-day lives, whether it’s as a personal assistant or to control their home entertainment system. However, one of the topics up for discussion is how secure these devices [...]
Identifying Errors in Phishing Emails can Save Your Bacon Phishing scams have been around for a long time, and they have only grown more convincing and more dangerous. Some businesses can’t even tell the difference between phishing scams and legitimate messages! [...]
U.S. Government Taking Steps Toward Protecting Data Do you remember the series of high-profile infrastructure attacks that occurred not so long ago this year? Well, now the United States government is taking matters into its own hands by ordering the patching [...]
