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On this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
- Faith-Based and Israel-Gaza Related Updates: FB-ISAO Newsletter, August 2024.
- FB-ISAO: Best Practices for Securing Your Donation Sites
- WaterISAC 2023 Year-In-Review
Main Topics
Extremism and Physical Security:
- “Dead society”: Tracing the Online Dimension of a Militant Accelerationist-Inspired Attack in Turkey
- Man Arrested for Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility
Sabotage:
- UK NPSA: Countering the Threat of Sabotage Operations to UK Interests and National Security
- Germany investigates suspected intrusion, sabotage at military base
- Germany investigates possible sabotage of water supply at military base
- Poland Says Received German Request To Arrest Suspect In Nord Stream Probe
Cyber Resilience:
- Carbon black supplier Orion loses $60 million in business email compromise scam
- Attorney General James Secures $4.5 Million from Biotech Company for Failing to Protect New Yorkers’ Health Data
- Enzo Biochem ordered to cough up $4.5 million over lousy security that led to ransomware disaster
Quick Hits
- Info Ops:
- Recorded Future: Malign Influence Threats Mount Ahead of US 2024 Elections
- NCRI – The CCP’s Digital Charm Offensive
- OpenAI: Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation
- X Ran Ads On Five Accounts Pushing Lies and Hate During UK Riots
- Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaign
- Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online (PDF).
- Department of Defense Civilian Employee Charged with Taking Classified Documents
- Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American. Here’s how to protect yourself
- Brian Krebs: NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data
- Election Security:
- Google: Iranian backed group steps up phishing campaigns against Israel, U.S.
- Arizona Man Pleads Guilty for Making Online Threats Against Public Servants Including Federal Officials
- Suspect identified in break-in at Trump campaign office in Virginia: Sheriff’s office
- Threat of US Civil Unrest Is Low But Rising, Analysis Finds
- One in five voters and a third of Republicans believe the FBI was behind the assassination attempt on Donald Trump
- Trump’s Shooting Rattled QAnon Believers. Then They Doubled Down
- Comer Seeks Information from Google and Meta on Potential Censorship of President Trump Assassination Attempt
- Meta warns of troll networks from Russia, Iran ahead of US elections
- Fake accounts on Meta pushed conservatives to run for office as independents
- HHS: United States Government’s Response to the Clade I Mpox Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Other Countries in the Region
- Earth just had its warmest July on record; July was the globe’s 14th month in a row of record warmth
- Texas Military Base Takes on Armed Shooters at Entrance
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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