In the Weekly Security Sprint, Dave and Andy talk about the following topics:

Mis/Dis/Mal-information (MDM)

Hawaii and Chile heat weapons.

Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant.

From 2017, Over 12,000 tweets are calling for Trump's assassination. Here's how the Secret Service handles it

'Remember Waco and Ruby Ridge': Man killed by FBI for making Biden death threat memes already a far-right rallying cry

 

Faith-Based Security & False Reports

‘Online trolls’ target 26 synagogues in series of antisemitic swat calls and bomb threats: ADL.

ADL Statement on Continued Series of Antisemitic Swatting Incidents Targeting Synagogues and Other Institutions

US synagogues continuously targeted by 'swatting'

Fake bomb threat forces Fullerton synagogue to evacuate during Sabbath service

Lil Durk Calls Out Merch Thieves After False Active Shooter Report at Chicago Concert

Eiffel Tower evacuated twice over bomb threat

3D-printed firearms plot exposes alarming antisemitism surge in LA.

How Jewish community safety group tracked down suspect linked to extremist threat in Reseda

Reseda Man Affiliated with Violent White Supremacist Group Charged in Federal Criminal Complaint with Drug and Ammunition Offenses

Homeless man arrested, accused of threatening North Little Rock church

Man arrested for threatening business, mosque

Police Investigating Vandalism at Philadelphia Buddhist Temple

PA Man Arrested for Making Ethnic Threats against Church

 

2023 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS). The 2023 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) provides the Intelligence Community (IC) with strategic direction from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) for the next four years.

 

CISA: The Power of Resilience. “This is resilience: Doing the work up front to prepare for a disruption, anticipating that it will in fact happen, and exercising not just for response but with a deliberate focus on continuity and recovery, improving the ability to operate in a degraded state and significantly reducing downtime when an incident occurs…”

 

Quick Hits

NOAA forecasters increase Atlantic hurricane season prediction to ‘above normal.’

Top U.S. cyber official offers 'stark warning' of potential attacks on infrastructure if tensions with China escalate.

China would consider attacks on US railroads, pipelines if it invades Taiwan, Easterly says

China to disclose secret US ‘global reconnaissance system,’ claims official.

Jen Walker spoke to this on a recent Gate 15 Security Sprint: Weekly Security Sprint EP 27. New SEC Rules and cybersecurity for everyone, not-so-subtle China cyber threat foot-stomping plus anger, radicalization and political violence, the critical-ist of infrastructure and…so much more!

THE CYBERSECURITY 202 - China’s hacking of Japan’s defense networks ‘was bad — shockingly bad

China's Plan to Rule the World Through Its Smart Devices, FCC Urged to Act

President Biden Signs Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments In Certain National Security Technologies And Products In Countries Of Concern

Cyber Updates

Nexus Podcast: Jennifer Lyn Walker on Cybersecurity Risks in the Water Sector

CISA: Review Of The Attacks Associated with Lapsus$ And Related Threat Groups Report, PDF. 

CISA: Review Of The Attacks Associated with Lapsus$ And Related Threat Groups Executive Summary, PDF.

Akamai Research: Rampant Abuse of Zero-Day and One-Day Vulnerabilities Leads to 143% Increase in Victims of Ransomware

Key Findings from the 1H 2023 FortiGuard Labs Threat Report. 

Administrator of ‘Bulletproof’ Webhosting Domain Charged in Connection with Facilitation of NetWalker Ransomware

 

AI

Biden-⁠Harris Administration Launches Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge to Protect America’s Critical Software

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC)

THE CYBERSECURITY 202 - The Biden administration wants to put AI to the test for cybersecurity

 

Virginia is For Lovers, a history