IRS scams: How to avoid getting tricked
Tax season is upon us, and you know what that means: It’s time for IRS scams to start...
OWM Welcomes New Associate for Spring 2024 Internship
The Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) welcomes Maryanne Amanze, spring Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) intern. Maryanne...
NIST Special Publication on WIM Systems Used in Law Enforcement Applications
Introduction According to the 2021 Fact Sheet: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal , one in five miles of U.S....
Office of Weights and Measures, National Legal Metrology Program (NLMP) Announces “Info Hours”
The Office of Weights and Measures, National Legal Metrology Program (NLMP) is pleased to announce a new program...
Witness Testing in Official Weights and Measures Inspections
Weights and measures inspections provide a legally required, independent validation of the accuracy of commercial weighing and measuring...
Fun and Games: Teach and Learn Measurement System Basics with the SI Units Card Deck
It’s easy to learn the metric system with the SI Units Card Deck (NIST SP 1297), an interactive...
NIST Researchers Use Cellphone Compass to Measure Tiny Concentrations of Compounds Important for Human Health
Nearly every modern cellphone has a built-in compass, or magnetometer, that detects the direction of Earth’s magnetic field,...
Detecting Windows-based Malware Through Better Visibility
Despite a plethora of available security solutions, more and more organizations fall victim to Ransomware and other threats....
Malicious Apps Caught Secretly Turning Android Phones into Proxies for Cybercriminals
Several malicious Android apps that turn mobile devices running the operating system into residential proxies (RESIPs) for other...
McDonald’s serves up a master class in how not to explain a system outage
The global outage that last month prevented McDonald’s from accepting payments prompted the company to release a lengthy...
Kill meetings (before meetings kill your company)
Meetings have been problematic for decades. They’re often used as a catch-all solution to unresolved problems. And a...
Vultur Android Banking Trojan Returns with Upgraded Remote Control Capabilities
The Android banking trojan known as Vultur has resurfaced with a suite of new features and improved anti-analysis...
Xiaomi electric car buyers face six-month wait
The firm previously said SU7 pre-orders had hit 88,898 within 24 hours of it starting to take orders....
Hackers Target macOS Users with Malicious Ads Spreading Stealer Malware
Malicious ads and bogus websites are acting as a conduit to deliver two different stealer malware, including Atomic...
Urgent: Secret Backdoor Found in XZ Utils Library, Impacts Major Linux Distros
RedHat on Friday released an “urgent security alert” warning that two versions of a popular data compression library...
Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling are now generally available in four additional AWS regions
Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling are now generally available in Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia...
Introducing AWS CodeConnections, formerly known as AWS CodeStar Connections
AWS is renaming AWS CodeStar Connections to AWS CodeConnections. The name change is effective in the APIs, CLI,...
AWS adds Managed Policies to VSS to help ensure valid application consistent backups
AWS now provides customers with a new AWS managed policy for Microsoft Windows Volume Snapshot Copy Service (VSS)...
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN adds metrics monitoring capability
Today, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announces a new fleet monitoring application that enables developers capture and visualize...
Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring. This feature deepens threat detection coverage...