tag:blog.ncircle.com,2011:/blogs/sync//3 2011-12-20T17:33:19Z Movable Type 3.38 tag:blog.ncircle.com,2011:/blogs/sync//3.663 2011-12-19T23:00:56Z 2011-12-20T17:33:19Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync Lately there's much a lot of hand wringing in the press about Carrier IQ, a software monitoring and tool for wireless carriers. Carrier IQ is reportedly facing a federal probe over allegations that its monitoring software collected smartphone data and... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2011:/blogs/sync//3.650 2011-11-22T21:54:48Z 2011-11-23T14:45:30Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync The results of the first wave of nCircle PureCloud scans are in and they aren't good news for small businesses. Only 23% of systems scanned between June 30, 2011 and November 7, 2011 had no vulnerabilities, and 30% of systems... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2011:/blogs/sync//3.617 2011-08-17T22:08:22Z 2011-08-17T22:26:17Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync No doubt breaking things is fun. I remember back when I was 10 years old when I took apart a squirrel cage fan, flipped some wires and so forth, and then attempted to plug it back in. Good thing... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2011:/blogs/sync//3.593 2011-04-22T18:02:03Z 2011-04-22T18:16:33Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync No doubt you read about the huge email security breach Epsilon announced earlier this month. You may have received letters from companies that use Epsilon services about the possible loss of your email information. A lot of people are justifiably... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2011:/blogs/sync//3.592 2011-04-19T20:00:00Z 2011-04-19T20:06:38Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync One of the side effects of the avalanche of new web applications available for everything from smartphones to tablets to laptops is that it's possible, maybe even likely, that anyone can find a serious software vulnerability. For companies that employ... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2011:/blogs/sync//3.591 2011-04-06T14:23:10Z 2011-04-06T14:32:28Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync In the last few days of having unfettered access to a new ipad2, I have learned something very important. Privacy is gone. Privacy is gone because the user has chosen to let it go and Apple makes it very compelling... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2010:/blogs/sync//3.586 2010-10-29T21:29:02Z 2010-10-29T21:35:51Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync Exploit tools are the new point and shoot video games. If my grandma were alive, she could probably figure out how to install a Firefox plugin and pwn all her nursing home friends on Facebook. Unfortunately, you can't say it's... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2010:/blogs/sync//3.570 2010-03-11T20:33:25Z 2010-03-11T20:47:12Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync Every month, like clockwork, Microsoft releases security bulletins and every month people ask me if it's small or a big release. While the exact details of the patches are generally treated as news, the expected workload each month really shouldn't be a guessing game because Microsoft's patch releases are predictably cyclical. I don't have any special inside knowledge, and I can't speak for Microsoft, but when I look at the publicly available information it's pretty clear to me how the cycle works.... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2010:/blogs/sync//3.569 2010-02-25T16:26:58Z 2010-02-25T16:34:53Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync Again this year, the folks at the nCircle booth will be providing customized RSA badge mods with your twitter handle. We've made things really simple to request your own: Follow @ncircletweets Send us a DM that you'd like one for... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2010:/blogs/sync//3.568 2010-02-23T17:09:02Z 2010-02-23T17:14:47Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync Each time a vendor releases patches; I always answer the same questions about prioritization. Which new patch is the most important? How is enterprise IT going to be tackling this new work? At nCircle, we know from customers and other... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2010:/blogs/sync//3.567 2010-02-22T18:25:28Z 2010-02-22T18:36:20Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync his past Saturday my son and I were having a "boys day". My wife was out having fun all day and the boys were left to be boys. Dinnertime rolled around and we were having too much fun playing LEGO India Jones to even consider making food. So I treated him to a stereotypical boys dinner - video games and pizza. This was when the fun turned into fear. Moments after ordering pizza online from our favorite local pizzeria, the phone rang. Caller: "This is Joe from the local pizza place, calling to confirm your order". The order and delivery location was confirmed. Caller: "And how do want to pay for this?" Me: "Um, well I just entered all my credit card info into your website like I usually do". Caller: "oh". A moment of pause. "Oh I see your credit card info now in the email." Me, with a definite tone of anger: "My credit card was sent to you in email?!" tag:blog.ncircle.com,2010:/blogs/sync//3.566 2010-01-29T22:17:02Z 2010-02-16T16:39:42Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync For a lot of Americans, today is both a payday and the last business day to pay those bills online due this month. So it goes without saying that many people have noticed that Bank of America's website has been... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2010:/blogs/sync//3.565 2010-01-17T02:05:03Z 2010-01-17T02:08:37Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync The sudden hypersensitivity regarding a new Microsoft IE 0-day, traces its roots to this weeks Google's overhyped breach. On Tuesday, Google went public with an admission of its own compromise. This was no ordinary breach, but one of global proportions... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2009:/blogs/sync//3.558 2009-08-06T15:53:41Z 2009-08-06T15:55:04Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync On this momentous occasion of a twitter outage apparently caused by a big DDoS attack, let us celebrate by naming 5 things we used to do before twitter. 1. Work more 2. Email the person directly 3. Pick up the... tag:blog.ncircle.com,2009:/blogs/sync//3.557 2009-08-03T20:25:40Z 2009-08-03T20:29:14Z Andrew Storms http://blog.ncircle.com/sync An old boss told me once, "You play in the big leagues, and you will eventually fall like a big leaguer." The fact is many people have their computer security compromised daily, and this is also true for many corporations....