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On this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following:
Main Topics
National Insider Threat Awareness Month!
- Insider Threat! Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot
- Insider Threat: Pa. church member accused of stealing $225K from congregation
- GRIP: Insider Threat Awareness -Don’t Let Errors Cost You, 28 August 2024
- Palo Alto: The Emerging Dynamics of Deepfake Scam Campaigns on the Web
National Preparedness Month!
- Ready.gov: National Preparedness Month, “Start a Conversation.”
- A Proclamation on National Preparedness Month, 2024
- September is National Preparedness Month; FEMA Releases the National Resilience Guidance + Other Upcoming Events & Climate Week NYC: Communicating Disaster Preparedness, Sep 23, 2024 02:30 PM.
- Do you have an emergency and recovery plan? Get started or update it this National Preparedness Month
- Addressing OT cyber risk management threats and attacks with risk registers and tabletop exercises
Election Security:
- Man Charged with Threatening Election Officials, State Judge, and Federal Law Enforcement Agents
- Donald Trump Assassination Updates:
- DOD Will Provide Homeland With Support During Presidential Campaigns
- US voters targeted in phishing campaign
- When Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts Look Like Phishing
- Intel officials say they anticipate more hacking attempts as US election nears
- Election Security Partners Host 7th Annual Tabletop the Vote Exercise for 2024
Quick Hits
- Two Foreign Nationals Charged in Swatting Conspiracy Targeting Lawmakers, Private Victims, Houses of Worship, and Businesses
- European terror attacks alarm US intelligence, NYPD briefing shows
- CIA official: Suspects in foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift shows aimed to kill ‘tens of thousands.’
- Solingen Stabbing Ignites Fears of Resurgent Jihadism Targeting Germany
- CISA – Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations
- Halliburton cyberattack linked to RansomHub ransomware gang
- KnowBe4 Report Reveals Critical Infrastructure Under Siege with Cyber Attacks Increasing 30 Percent in One Year
- Chinese government hackers penetrate U.S. internet providers to spy
- Microsoft: Peach Sandstorm deploys new custom Tickler malware in long-running intelligence gathering operations
- Cybercrime and sabotage cost German firms $300 bln in past year
- France formally charges Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, over organized crime on messaging app
- Worldwide Trends in COVID-19-Related Attacks Against Healthcare: A Review of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition Database
- Kasada’s Releases 2024 State of Bot Mitigation Report
- CISA Launches New Portal to Improve Cyber Reporting
- Hate Group’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Reflects Anti-LGBTQ+ Conspiracy Theories
- Recorded Future: H1 2024 Check Fraud Report: Geographic Trends and Threat Actor Patterns
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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