Tag NIST

December 27, 2025

Hello all, Christmas has passed, and the New Year is just around the corner. Based on what I’ve seen, It seems that threat actors and pen testers may have taken a bit of time off. There was significantly less news…

December 20, 2025

Hello all, For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter starts tomorrow! And it is also the shortest day of the year. Now if your system clocks rely on the National Institute of Standards (NIST) timeservers located in Boulder,…

October 4, 2025

Hello all, This past Saturday I attended BSides St. Petersburg, Florida, not Russia. This is a local convention, aka ‘con’, that draws around 500 cyber security minded people together to network, learn, and hear from some of the most dedicated…

September 28, 2024

Hello all, Summer is over, we are about to start the fourth quarter of the year, and we still have two weeks until Patch Tuesday. So, for many of us it should be a somewhat easier week. Unfortunately, also for…

April 27, 2024

Hello all, Artificial Intelligence continues to get a bit more adroit. Vulnerabilities continue to show up. And despicable individuals continue to do their dastardly deeds. So, we continue to fight on in our battle to expose the dark underbelly of…

January 28, 2023

Hello all,The Red-N Weekly Security newsletter is below the Notable Callouts as usual. Notable Callouts: The ancient Romans built over 50,000 miles of incredibly durable and efficient roads throughout their empire, uniting their lands, bringing, trade, mail, news, and providing…