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During this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy pause to reflect on Memorial Day before discussing key security issues.
Opening:
- Misinformation, Deepfakes, and AI’s Unwelcome Companions. This blog is part of Gate 15’s blog series “Riding the Tiger: AI Threats and Opportunities”, highlighting the essential considerations for organizational leaders and security professionals.
- Researchers warn of coordinated influence accounts amplifying synthetic AI-generated geopolitical narratives across social platforms
- Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda
- Trump’s AI executive order postponed. Here’s why. & Trump’s AI order sacks tech experts and sidelines safety testing
- Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power
- Health-ISAC: Healthcare is scaling AI without the infrastructure to manage it
- AT&T joins Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute’s C2-ISAC initiative – AT&T, and see Who’s whispering in Trump’s ear on Iran for more on C2-ISAC (“New ISAC in Town”) and lots of other articles sharing this announcement.
- GAO: Critical Infrastructure Protection: EPA Needs to Ensure Water Systems Address Risks from Cybersecurity Threats
- Ranking Member Lofgren’s Opening Statement at Water Cybersecurity Hearing & Ranking Member Amos’ Opening Statement at Water Cybersecurity Hearing
- Tip of the Week – May 21, 2026 – WaterISAC
Main Topics:
2026 Data Breach Investigations Report – Verizon – 19 May 2026
- 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report finds third-party risk and credential abuse accelerating
- Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability Exploits Overtake Credentials as Top Access Vector
- What the 2026 Verizon DBIR Signals About Internet Intelligence and External Visibility
- Verizon 2026 DBIR: 10 Takeaways You Should Know
- Verizon DBIR finds vulnerability exploitation overtakes stolen credentials as top breach entry point for critical infrastructure
- Patches take weeks. Exploits take hours. The 2026 DBIR makes the math brutal.
San Diego Mosque Shooting and Extremism
- San Diego Shooter So Alarmed Police in 2025, They Seized Father’s Guns
- CSIS: The San Diego Mosque Shooting Marks a Deadly First in the United States
- ‘It’s the Jews’: San Diego mosque shooters decried ‘the universal enemy’ in hate-filled manifesto
- San Diego mosque shooter Caleb Vazquez’s family breaks silence on terror attack, say autistic son was brainwashed online
- Several people watched San Diego attack live on video calls, recordings show
- Violent Neo-Nazi Ideology at the Heart of San Diego Attack
- San Diego Mosque Shooting Another Symptom Of The “Great Replacement” Conspiracy Theory
- San Diego Mosque Shooters’ Apparent Manifestos Reveal Anti-Muslim Extremism
- San Diego shooting suspects had manifesto, weapons cache: FBI
- Father-of-eight killed in San Diego mosque shooting hailed as a hero
- Imam blames anti-Muslim rhetoric for San Diego attack: ‘This is what we get’
Quick Hits:
- NOAA predicts below-normal 2026 Atlantic hurricane season – NOAA
- Nine Practical Ideas to Strengthen Preparedness This Hurricane Season
- Ebola: Worldwide Caution – U.S. Department of State
- World Cup’s Ebola factor
- There is no Ebola vaccine for this outbreak. There won’t be one soon. Here’s why.
- WHO chief says Ebola outbreak in Congo is ‘spreading rapidly’ and upgrades risk assessment
- Threat Actors Impersonate IC3 Employees to Defraud Victims – FBI IC3
- “First VPN Service” Used by Ransomware Actors to Compromise Systems – FBI IC3
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.
- 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.
- Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series was a 2024 limited series podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosted a series of 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 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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