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In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
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- We’re excited to release this brand-new collaborative report! (TLP:CLEAR) North Korea IT Worker Threat Report: Threat Overview and Mitigation. This report is a collaboration that incorporates analysis from several leading Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), including Crypto ISAC, Oil and Natural Energy ISAC (ONE-ISAC), Real Estate ISAC, Tribal ISAC, WaterISAC, the Faith-Based Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO), and Gate 15.
- New! Lock It Down: Why MFA Isn’t Optional Anymore
- FB-ISAO Current Threat Level
- Faith-Based (U.S.): TLP:CLEAR | FB-ISAO Newsletter
- DHS intelligence office halts staff cuts after stakeholder backlash
Main Topics:
- Unreleased Beyoncé music stolen from car at Atlanta’s Krog Street Market
- Elmo has been hacked, claims Trump is in Epstein files, calls for Jews to be exterminated
- Hacktivist Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Grow as New Groups Emerge
- NOAA – June 2025 was Earth’s 3rd warmest on record
- A deadly 1987 flood foreshadowed the Texas disaster. Survivors ask, ‘why didn’t we learn?’
- Camp Mystic waited over an hour to evacuate after receiving ‘life threatening’ flood alert
- CSU: Forecast for 2025 Hurricane Activity, 09 Aug update. PDF
- UK arson attack trial reveals how Russia-linked operatives recruited ‘gig’ workers for terrorism
Quick Hits:
- A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
- Recorded Future: US Violent Extremists Likely Shifting Focus to Targeted Physical Threats in 2025
- Soufan Center: Assessment of the Global Terrorism Threat Landscape in Mid-2025
- Public exploits released for Citrix Bleed 2 NetScaler flaw, patch now
- Pay2Key’s Resurgence: Iranian Cyber Warfare Targets the West
- CISA warns hackers are actively exploiting critical ‘Citrix Bleed 2’ security flaw
- ‘Anti-Government Militia’ Says It’s Targeting Oklahoma Weather Radars
- Suspect In News 9 Radar Vandalism Arrested By Oklahoma City Police
- (TLP:CLEAR) WaterISAC: Anti-Government Extremist Group Threatens to Destroy Critical Weather Radars, NOAA Warns (15 May 2025)
- Far-right extremist group threatens to take weather radars offline
- US neo-fascist group claims it is part of Texas floods relief efforts & Extremist Groups Uphold Long Tradition of Exploiting National Tragedies for Publicity
- Swedish PM’s private address revealed by Strava data shared by bodyguards
- UK NCSC: Getting your organisation ready for Windows 11 upgrade before Autumn 2025
- Crypto Wallets Continue to be Drained in Elaborate Social Media Scam
- U.S. Secret Service One-Year Update Following the July 13, 2024, Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump
- US GAO – Cybersecurity: Implementation of the 2015 Information Sharing Act
- NATO Ally Warns of Iranian Assassination Threat
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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