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In this Week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy talked about the topics below. For more of these and other security updates, subscribe to our free daily report, delivered directly to your inbox, the Gate 15 SUN. To subscribe, please email [email protected].
- Growing need to address cybersecurity challenges across US healthcare sector for improved resilience
- Health-ISAC Supports Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan; Joint effort gives measurable objectives toward resilience within 5 years
Main Topics
Terrorism & Extremism
- FBI warns Gaza War will stoke domestic radicalization “for years to come”
- U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Worldwide Threats
- The Terrorist: How a devout Christian kid became a radicalized mass murderer
- A New Terror Threat Is Emerging in Europe Linked to Iran, Gaza War
- Illegal migrant from Lebanon caught at border admitted he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping ‘to make a bomb’ — and was headed for NY
- FB-ISAO: March 2024 Threat Level Statement Update
PSA:
- On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm. The person in the online chat introduced himself as “Brad.” Using flattery and guile, he persuaded the 14-year-old girl to send a nude photo. It instantly became leverage. Over the following two weeks in April 2021, he and other online predators threatened to send the image to the girl’s classmates in Oklahoma unless she live-streamed degrading and violent acts, the girl’s mother told The Washington Post. They coerced her into carving their screen names deep into her thigh, drinking from a toilet bowl and beheading a pet hamster — all as they watched in a video chatroom on the social media platform Discord. The pressure escalated until she faced one final demand: to kill herself on camera. Related: There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There’s 764.
FCC approves cyber labeling program for loT devices
Quick Hits
Earth just had its warmest February on record
European Environment Agency: Europe is not prepared for rapidly growing climate risks
Ransomware:
- Ransomware: Attacks Continue to Rise as Operators Adapt to Disruption
- Malwarebytes: Ransomware review: March 2024
- GRIT Ransomware Report: February 2024
Haiti:
- Haitian PM tenders resignation after Jamaica talks
- Haitian gangs abduct churchgoers amid escalating violence: ‘Kidnappings everywhere’
- Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a High-Level Meeting on Haiti
- Haiti security mission in limbo as urgency grows
- Background Briefing with Senior State Department Official on the Situation in Haiti
- Rush to deploy multinational force sets conditions on Haiti
- Plan to install new leaders in Haiti appears to crumble after political parties reject it
- American missionaries trapped in Haiti seek prayers and help
Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries
Info Ops: Blinken Warns of Disinformation Threat to Democracies.
- South Korea hosted summit warns of AI risks to democracy
- How a Foul Ball From 2014 Became Part of a Russian Disinformation Campaign
- White House’s Efforts to Combat Misinformation Face Supreme Court Test
- Exclusive: Trump launched CIA covert influence operation against China
US is still chasing down pieces of Chinese hacking operation, NSA official says
UK NCSC: Cloud-hosted supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
US GAO – Science & Tech Spotlight: Combating Deepfakes
HHS Office for Civil Rights Issues Letter and Opens Investigation of Change Healthcare Cyberattack
FB-ISAO Newsletter, v6, Issue 3
The water industry wants to write its own cybersecurity rules. Will Biden and Congress go for it?
CISA: Secure Cloud Business Applications: Hybrid Identity Solutions Guidance
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- 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.
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- 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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