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On this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics: Opening: • The Gate 15 Interview EP 75. E-ISAC’s Jesse Sythe on GridEx, Resilience, Fromage, and MTV! — Gate 15 — 19 Oct 2026. Gate 15's latest interview features Jesse Sythe of the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, discussing GridEx, electric-sector resilience, and the importance of collaboration across the critical infrastructure community. • We’re making some changes to the SUN video edition and will briefly pause video delivery. We look forward to returning soon with a new and improved format highlighting the SUN’s top stories in a way that’s easy to share with your team! • Ideas for our podcasts in 2027? Send ‘em to [email protected]!! Main Topics: Hostile Events! White Paper: The Hostile Event Attack Cycle (HEAC), 2026 Update — Gate 15 — 14 Oct 2026. Gate 15 released an updated Hostile Event Attack Cycle white paper examining how individuals and groups plan, prepare for, and carry out hostile attacks, drawing on recent incidents including the New Orleans truck attack, Uvalde school shooting, and Crocus City Hall attack. The update retains the model’s seven phases while examining the influence of online radicalization, geopolitical conflict, encrypted communications, drones, and artificial intelligence on hostile-event planning. • FB-ISAO Releases an All-Faiths Analysis of Attacks on U.S. Houses of Worship in 2025 — FB-ISAO — 09 Oct 2026. The Faith-Based Information Sharing and Analysis Organization released its third annual all-faiths review, documenting 915 reported incidents at U.S. houses of worship in 2025, up 8.8% from 2024. • Police: Palatine man was plotting mass shooting at Hindu temple — Daily Herald — 14 Oct 2026. Drones Are Threatening U.S. Assets Overseas, but Their Threat to the U.S. Homeland is Higher — The Soufan Center — 14 Oct 2026. The Soufan Center assesses that the proliferation of inexpensive drones is increasing threats to U.S. military assets abroad and to domestic military and civilian facilities. France Supermarket Hacks Expose Risks of Internet-Facing Refrigeration Systems — Claroty — 12 Oct 2026. Claroty examined cyberattacks that reportedly disrupted refrigeration systems at French supermarket chains, including an incident affecting 150 Intermarché stores. • Cyberattack shuts down refrigerators at French supermarkets • Cyberattack on French supermarkets causes fires, millions in losses • Incident de sécurité ciblant les contrôleurs à distance des installations de réfrigération — CERT-FR • Frostbitten in France: A Danfoss StoreView Internet Exposure Report • Analysis After the Refrigeration System Attack in France: Two Thirds of Exposed Refrigeration Controllers Share an Address with Cameras, Remote Desktop, and VPNs Quick Hits: • Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation — CISA, NSA, NIST • AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity • AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter • FBI Warns Voters on Election Crimes Ahead of the November 2026 Midterm Election — FBI IC3 • Cyber Threat Actors Use a Variety of Techniques to Target Election and Campaign Officials — CISA • FBI Cautions About Threats to Election Workers Ahead of the November 2026 Midterm Election — FBI IC3 • Scammers Exploit 2026 U.S. Midterm Election to Perpetrate Multiple Fraud Schemes — FBI IC3 • FEMA and FCC Schedule Nationwide Emergency Alert System Test for 17 November

In this episode of The Gate 15 Interview, Andy Jabbour speaks with Jesse Sythe, E-ISAC GridEx Program Manager. Jesse has spent over two decades in the electricity industry. From serving as an aircraft carrier reactor operator on the West Coast to transmission operator on the East Coast, his career has been steeped in operations. Over the years, his primary focus has been on the improvement of operations, processes, and procedures through emergency response exercises. Starting in 2013, Jesse coordinated GridEx II through VI at Eversource’s Connecticut control center, managing inject and MSEL development, developing full-fidelity simulator scenarios, and developing action items following the exercise. Joining E-ISAC in 2022, he now manages the entire GridEx program, including planning the exercise and following up on action items and recommendations. Jesse on LinkedIn! NERC E-ISAC GridEx (including GridEx Public Reports for all GridEx events) In the podcast, Jesse and Andy discuss: Jesse’s background and current role. Critical Lifelines, Electricity and E-ISAC! GridEx & GridEx IX: Registration now open! Jesse’s thoughts on “resilience,” getting comfortable being wrong, and being fearless. Looking ahead, technology, and staying optimistic. Always moving forward, imposter syndrome, video games, Panic at the Disco, and some deep cuts! NERC’s 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) NLR’s Interconnection Seams Study (PDF) 2021 Texas power crisis NERC’s Large Loads Working Group (LLWG) Northeast blackout of 2003 The Sifl and Olly Show (on YouTube)

On this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics: Opening: • We’re making some changes to the SUN video edition and will briefly pause video delivery. We look forward to returning soon with a new and improved format highlighting the SUN’s top stories in a way that’s easy to share with your team! • The Value of InfraGard: A Board Member’s Perspective — Gate 15 — 30 Sep 2026 • (TLP:CLEAR) WaterISAC Partners with Cyware to Strengthen Threat Intelligence Sharing for the Water Sector • Insider Threats in the Water Sector: A Growing and Underestimated Risk — Sam Houston State University Institute for Homeland Security — Sep 2026. Gate 15’s Alec Davison and David Pounder developed a new report examining insider threats as a growing and often underestimated risk to the water and wastewater sector, emphasizing that the threat extends beyond malicious employees to negligent users, contractors, vendors, and other trusted individuals with authorized access. • (TLP:CLEAR) WaterISAC’s Quarterly Water Sector Incident Summary, April to June 2026 – Executive Summary • Securing Water and Wastewater Operational Technology Environments — NIST — 01 Oct 2026 Main Topics: Hate, Extremism & Terrorism: Three Arrested in Mobile for Alleged Threats Against the President — FBI — 02 Oct 2026. The FBI’s Mobile Division, working with the U.S. Secret Service and multiple federal, state, local, and university partners, arrested three individuals for allegedly making threatening communications directed toward the president of the United States. • Georgia man arrested for alleged threat to kill Hegseth, family if Pentagon chief didn’t kill Chabad Jews • Man arrested, accused in plot to attack Texas Capitol building, DPS says • Places of Worship are Increasingly Being Targeted by Far-Right Extremists • Iran hackers offer bounty for Americans: $15K if alive, $2.5K if dead • Two men charged with suspected terror plot targeting Jewish Community in Manchester • The 10 Priorities Every Church Security Team Should Have, and every security team should consider! • Full Senate Passes Measure to Reauthorize Federal Terrorism Insurance Backstop Russia! Hijacking Trusted Media Brands: Russia’s Favorite Disinformation Tactic Against the West Surged by 850 Percent in the Last Year — NewsGuard — Sep 2026. NewsGuard reports that Russian influence operations increasingly impersonate legitimate news organizations to lend credibility to fabricated stories, videos, websites, and social-media content. Quick Hits: • Measles! Flu! COVID! Ebola! • Critical Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Exploited in Citrix NetScaler ADC, Gateway — CISA • Disruptive cyber attacks – reducing their impact, reducing the risk — National Cyber Security Centre • 2026 Digital Defense Report — Microsoft • Threat Spotlight: What’s Trending? Top Cyber Attacker Techniques: June 2026–August 2026 — ReliaQuest

On the latest episode of Nerd Out, Dave and Alec are joined by Joe Levy (most favorite guest status) and Sharon Dye to talk about National Preparedness Month. Focusing on the human behavior, the discussion focuses on common pitfalls of where preparedness activities fail and ways that organizations can address that. Joe and Sharon founded The HX3 Advisory Group™ Find out more at: thehxadvisorygroup.com

On this week's Security Sprint Dave and Andy covered the following topics: Opening: • 15 x 15 GRIP Alerts!! • 27th Annual TribalNet Conference & Tradeshow • Tribal-ISAC • CISA: 2026 Election Infrastructure Security Plan Main Topics: Terrorism and Targeted Violence (T2V) in the United States: Plots Targeting U.S. Schools — START — Sep 2026. The University of Maryland's START program examined 700 premeditated plots targeting U.S. school spaces between January 2023 and March 2026 using its Terrorism and Targeted Violence database. The research analyzes plot rates, locations, weapons, perpetrator intentions and outcomes, perpetrator ages, and the intersection between terrorism and school-based targeted violence. OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later — WIRED — 24 Sep 2026. An OpenAI agent conducting research on publicly available medicine-spending data gained unauthorized access to a Services Australia Medicare statistics portal on 18 June after encountering restrictions and finding alternative methods to obtain the requested information. • Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents — Axios • The Hugging Face incident and other third-party impact from misaligned models — OpenAI • OpenAI pauses training on some models, says agents targeted government sites • OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields • OpenAI's AI agents accidentally uploaded user-provided images to third-party sites • It was a matter of when, not if... — DIVD — 24 Sep 2026. The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure reported that its own infrastructure was compromised and said the attack's modus operandi indicates what it believes may be an agentic AI-powered attack, while emphasizing that its forensic investigation remains ongoing. • Cyber Threat Report 2026: Leaders need to prepare now for the impact of AI — New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre — Sep 2026 • Protect your organisation’s AI services — Australian Signals Directorate — Sep 2026. Quick Hits: • ENISA Threat Landscape 2026 — European Union Agency for Cybersecurity — 22 Sep 2026. ENISA’s annual threat assessment finds the European cyber environment increasingly shaped by interconnected threats, shared dependencies, geopolitical developments, and blurred boundaries among cybercrime, hacktivist, and state-linked activity. • ShinyHunters hackers say they breached Federal Bureau of Investigation, no immediate comment from FBI • FBI Statement on Compromise of fbijobs.gov Portal and Alleged Impact to FBI Employee PII • Military personnel data exposed in breach, agency warns • Gary Warner on LinkedIn: DMDC breach notification raises questions about notification timing and QR-code delivery • Special agents' blood and urine test results stolen in FBI hack • Russia! US-Based Digital Forensics Firm Hid its Russian Ownership from U.S. Government Customers • Russia! ‘United by chaos:’ Examining the Russian nexus to online networks of nihilistic violence • No Kings: Vote Early nationwide day of action planned for 17 October