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Rietta on Security
A newsletter on policy and technical trends in web application security, written from decades in the online trenches.
Rietta on Security is edited by Frank Rietta, M.S. Information Security. It's the newsletter companion to The Rietta Blog: my own take on what actually mattered, delivered straight to your inbox.
Recent From The Blog
09/04/2026
Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
by Frank Rietta
Rietta patched a government client running a Ruby on Rails website within hours of a 9.5 CVSS ActiveStorage CVE. Exploit attempts began before business hours resumed.…
Read More »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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