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On this week’s Security Sprint, Jen and Andy covered the topics below.
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- TLP:CLEAR | FB-ISAO Newsletter
- H2OSecCon Spring 2024: A Resounding Success in Water and Wastewater Sector Security. Tom Dobbins, Executive Director of WaterISAC, praised the event’s impact: “H2OSecCon Spring 2024 demonstrated the power of collaboration and knowledge-sharing in the water sector. The insights and strategies shared by our expert speakers will undoubtedly help utilities enhance their security measures and resilience against emerging threats. This event shows our collective commitment to safeguarding our critical water infrastructure.”
- America’s rural hospitals keep getting attacked by cybercriminals. Microsoft and Google are working to fix that
Main Topics
Summer Scams & CISA is BIG TIME!
- Protect Yourself from Summer Vacation Scams: Stay Cyber Aware During Your Vacation
- Phone Scammers Impersonating CISA Employees
- CISA – National Internet Safety Month: This June, Take 4 Easy Steps to Stay Safe Online.
Terror Alarms, NTAS Bulletins and FUD!
- 8 people with suspected ties to ISIS arrested in Philly, NYC and LA: Sources
- Feds arrest 8 Tajik nationals in US after surveillance abroad found potential ties to terrorism, sources say
- Pressure mounts on Biden admin to issue national terrorism alert after arrest of suspected ISIS-tied border crossers.
- Related Reminder: DHS Continues to See High Risk of Foreign and Domestic Terrorism in 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment. Release Date: September 14, 2023. Annual Threat Assessment to Replace Regular NTAS Bulletins and Provide the Public and our Partners with More Comprehensive Analysis of Most Pressing Threats and Challenges. (The) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA)… Going forward, the annual HTA will serve as the primary mechanism for sharing the terrorism threat level, which has previously been done through the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS). The issuance of NTAS advisories will be reserved for situations where DHS needs to alert the public about a specific or imminent terrorist threat or about a change in the terrorism threat level. This shift will provide the public and DHS partners both in-depth annual reports and urgent updates, as needed.
- Turner says US is at ‘highest level of a possible terrorist threat’
- New York Threat ‘Extremely Serious,’ Official Warns, as ISIS Crosses Border
- Dr. Paul Leads Letter Requesting Hearing on Threat of Terrorists Exploiting Southern Border
- Threats of terrorism in the U.S. are ‘more diverse and difficult to counter.’
- Recorded Future: Israel-Hamas Conflict and US Elections Drive Violent Extremist Threats in 2024
- Fort Worth Man Charged With Threatening Federal Agent: ‘Guns Will Come Out.’
- Arizona Man Charged with Selling Guns for Use in Mass Shooting
- Man arrested in New York City with a gun, 8 loaded magazines, an NYPD vest and other weapons
Vulnerability Management: Living on the Edge! Edge Devices: The New Frontier for Mass Exploitation Attacks
2024 Attack Intelligence Report
Hurricane Season! CSU: Forecast for 2024 Hurricane Activity
AI/Preparedness/Resilience
- CISA, JCDC, Government and Industry Partners Conduct AI Tabletop Exercise
- Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) Artificial Intelligence Cyber Tabletop Exercise
Roadmap for AI - Scenario Document | Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative Artificial Intelligence Cyber Tabletop Exercise
Quick Hits
- Executive Order on White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience
- Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested
- How Email Scammers Hit Arlington, Mass., Covered Their Tracks
- US GAO – High-Risk Series: Urgent Action Needed to Address Critical Cybersecurity Challenges Facing the Nation
- Europol: Announcement of two major actions targeting terrorist propaganda online on a global scale
- Major takedown of critical online infrastructure to disrupt terrorist communications and propaganda
- Europol-coordinated operation tackles the threat of terrorist-operated websites
- Thirteenth Meeting of the Law Enforcement Coordination Group Focused on Countering Hizballah’s Terrorist and Illicit Activities
- Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on FBI’s Quarterly Uniform Crime Report
- FBI Releases 2024 Quarterly Crime Report and Use-of-Force Data Update
- Statement from President Biden on Record Decrease in Crime in First Quarter of 2024
- IIJ REMVE Initiative: Addressing the Threat of REMVE Radicalization to Violence in the Americas
- Terrorist Designations of Nordic Resistance Movement and Three Leaders
- US designates Scandinavian neo-Nazi group and three leaders as terrorists
- Global leader of ISIS targeted and possibly killed in U.S. airstrike
- Joint U.S.-Türkiye Designations of an ISIS Smuggling Network
- Teenager’s chilling five-word warning as he plotted suicide bomb attack on synagogue
- ‘Neo Nazi’ knifeman attacks two children, leaving 12-year-old seriously wounded at Finnish shopping centre
- Catoosa County man charged with terroristic threats after posting videos online
- Nashville school shooter’s violent rant REVEALED at last: Audrey Hale wrote about her ‘torture’ as a trans girl and how she would ‘kill’ to get puberty blockers
- Aghan teen arrested for knife attack on women in Germany
- ISIS tells Americans they’ll ‘drink their blood’ in terrifying promise to attack
- Neo-Nazi sold gun parts to extremists online while in prison using smuggled phones, DA Bragg says
Read more about Gate 15’s full podcast menu at our Podcast page. You can subscribe and enjoy all the Gate 15 Podcasts on Spotify for Podcasters, Apple, Spotify, as well as other locations accessible from the Spotify for Podcasters link. Week-to-week, you can hear and learn more about our all-hazards threats, risks, mitigation and other issues impacting homeland security risk management from our team as well as our regular and special guests. The full podcast menu includes:
- The Security Sprint is our weekly rundown of the week’s notable all-hazards security news, risks and threats and some of the key focus areas for organizations to consider behind the headlines. Gate 15 team members discuss physical security, cybersecurity, natural hazards, health threats and other issues across our environment.
- Nerd Out! Security Panel Discussion, moderated by Dave Pounder, focuses on physical security topics including terrorism, extremism, hostile events, and other pertinent topics.
- The Gate 15 Interview, is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues.
- Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series is our newest podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosts short interviews with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.
- The Cybersecurity Evangelist, with Jennifer Lyn Walker, is a cybersecurity-focused discussion with Jen and invited guests. This is presently a Gate 15 special podcast and occasionally is updated on our Gate 15 podcast channel.
- The Risk Roundtable, was a monthly discussion among our team and occasional guests exploring the all-hazards threats and risks impacting the United States and internationally. This was suspended in September 2023.
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