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 [...]
Will Your Insurance Carrier Require Multi-Factor Authentication for Cyber Insurance? Are you getting ready to renew your cyber liability insurance policy? Maybe you're looking to increase your limits due to the continued increase in attacks and the cost of those attacks. [...]
3 Ways to Tell That You’ve Been Hacked There are many different types of hacking attacks, but those targeting your computer can either be incredibly intrusive or so low-profile that you don’t even know you’ve been infected until it’s too late [...]
What to Do If Your Network is Hijacked by Ransomware It’s one thing to avoid ransomware entirely, but what does a business do when it’s already within its walls? Today we are going to discuss how your business can recover from [...]
Taking a Look at the Optimal Privacy Settings In Your Browser Most businesses use the Internet to conduct many of their day-to-day operations, and the most-used ways that people interact with the Internet is through web browsers. That said, there are [...]
FoggyWeb is the Latest Malware to Wreak Havoc The attack on SolarWinds earlier this year caused a lot of challenges, and now that time has passed and the dust has settled somewhat, Microsoft has uncovered another type of malware associated with [...]
Two Meters or Two Kilometers? Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus General Dodonna: Well, the Empire doesn't consider a small one-man fighter to be any threat, or they'd have a [...]
