The Rietta Blog
Cybersecurity, software, and the law between them.
Since 2005, this blog has covered cybersecurity, software development, and cloud migration, a resource for anyone staying informed about these areas.
09/04/2026
Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
by Frank Rietta
Rietta patched a government client's Ruby on Rails site within hours of a 9.5 CVSS ActiveStorage CVE. Exploit attempts began before business hours resumed.
08/18/2026
Generate OpenSSL Elliptic Curve Key Pair from the Command Line
by Frank Rietta
How to generate an OpenSSL elliptic curve (P-256) key pair from the command line, and why NIST-backed ECC beats scaling RSA past 3072-bit.
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08/15/2026
22 Years on Firefox, and Today I'm Finally All In
by Frank Rietta
Going all in with Mozilla Firefox as a cybersecurity professional in 2026 and keeping my workstation and iOS devices in sync.
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08/05/2026
Meet Titan, the Rietta AI Research Lab Server
by Frank Rietta
Meet Titan: our dual-GPU AMD research and development server behind Metadata Minder's ADA Title II and WCAG 2.1 scanning and two-key LUKS2/TPM security design.
07/28/2026
Threat Modeling for ADA/WCAG Compliance
by Frank Rietta
An evidence-based approach to ADA Title II and WCAG document audits, using threat modeling and risk scoring to treat accessibility as a governance concern.
07/25/2026
The Five Pillars of Information Security (And Why We Audit Accessibility)
by Frank Rietta
The five pillars of information assurance: confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation, and why accessibility is part of it.
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07/24/2026
Metadata in WordPerfect: ADA and WCAG 2.1 Compliance
by Frank Rietta
A 1994 WordPerfect screenshot shows metadata fields predate today's ADA Title II & WCAG 2.1 requirements; courts still forget to fill them for legal compliance.
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07/07/2026
Real ADA Title II Findings for Government Documents
by Frank Rietta
Beyond alt text: the three metadata ADA Title II deficiencies we see most in government files, and why they matter: blank titles, missing dates, no language.
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07/03/2026
297 Days: The Real ADA Title II Deadline for Government Documents
by Frank Rietta
The DOJ extended the ADA Title II deadlines. Larger government entities have 297 days to fix their documents, and much remediation we've reviewed falls short.
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02/04/2026
Protect Production SQL Databases from AI/LLM Agentic SQL Query Risks
by Frank Rietta
Prompt injection can talk an LLM agent past a "SELECT only" rule. A read-only replica and lexical SQL validation give deterministic guardrails it can't bypass.
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