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On this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
Main Topics
International Security Incidents:
- Solingen: Main suspect behind deadly attack in custody
- Three dead after stabbing attack at festival in western Germany
- German police arrest boy accused of knowing about knife attack in advance
- French police arrest synagogue blast suspect
- Explosions Outside a France Synagogue Were a Terrorist Attack, Prosecutors Say
- Suspect Caught On CCTV In French Synagogue Attack Held Palestinian Flag: Source Close To Probe
- US ‘kinetic strike’ takes out senior leader of terrorist group aligned with al Qaeda in Syria
- Iran says 14 Daesh suspects arrested planning attacks
- Four Islamic State Terrorists ‘Liquidated’ By Russian Snipers After Taking Prison Guards Hostage: REPORT
- NATO airbase in Germany raises security level due to ‘potential threat.’
- Hamas said to decide to target Israelis abroad in bid to avenge Haniyeh killing
Forgotten radios and missed warnings: New details emerge about communication failures before Trump rally shooting. The day before the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a tactical team of local police officers set aside radios for their Secret Service partners so the two agencies could communicate during the former president’s July 13 campaign rally. But those radios were never picked up. The next day, three minutes before shots were fired toward Trump, local police radioed that a man was on a nearby roof. That warning never made it to the Secret Service, whose snipers didn’t know the would-be assassin was on the roof until shots rang out. In the 15 seconds it took for snipers to lock onto and kill the shooter, he was able to fire off eight shots. Standing over the gunman’s dead body minutes later, a local police officer who responded to the initial warning expressed frustration that his own radio calls about a man on the roof seemed to go unheeded by the other officers. “That’s what I was f**king calling out bro, f**king ‘On top of the roof,’” the officer said, according to body camera footage. “We’re not – we on the same frequency?”
Invest in Resilience! Cyber Resilience Overestimation Leads to Business Continuity Issues, Ransom Payments
- Corvus: Q2 Cyber Threat Report: Ransomware Season Arrives Early
- Kroll: Q2 2024 Threat Landscape Report: Threat Actors Do Their Homework, Ransomware and Cloud Risks Accelerate
- Rapid7: Selling Ransomware Breaches: 4 Trends Spotted on the RAMP Forum
- Malwarebytes / ThreatDown: Why you need to know about ransomware
- NCC Group Monthly Threat Pulse – Review of July 2024
- WithSecure: Ransomware Landscape H1/2024
Quick Hits
- From cybercrime to terrorism, FBI director says America faces many elevated threats ‘all at once’
- ASD’s ACSC, CISA, FBI, and NSA, with the support of International Partners Release Best Practices for Event Logging and Threat Detection
- Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Detonating an Explosive Device Outside of the Alabama Attorney General’s Office
- VFC: Bomb Threats at Jewish Institutions
- Bomb threats reported at more than 100 Canadian Jewish institutions
- Oregon Man Charged in Swatting and Bomb Threats Scheme That Targeted Jewish Hospitals in New York City and Long Island
- Arizona man in custody amid investigation into alleged threats to kill former President Donald Trump
- Iran Tries To ‘Storm’ U.S. Election With Russian-Style Disinformation Campaign
- Meta: Taking Action Against Malicious Accounts in Iran
- How Russian Trolls Are Trying to Go Viral on X
- Trump attorney was targeted by hackers, sources say
- ‘Several opportunities’ to prevent Maine mass shooting were missed, commission finds
- International report confirms record-high global temperatures, greenhouse gases in 2023
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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