This DAP highlights FB-ISAO Update and Share Zoom on Geopolitical Events Occurring, US Critical networks are prime targets for cyberattacks. They’re preparing for Iran to strike, Maryland Man Charged With Mailing Threatening Communications to Jewish organizations, Including a Jewish Institution in Philadelphia, and Germany sees sharp rise in incidents of Islamophobia. The DAP also has More Faith-Based Stories and Select All-Hazard Stories. These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 3 December 2024
Faith-Based Security Headlines
These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
US Secret Service Live Virtual Training Events
From the US Secret Service Virtual Monthly Training Registration Event website:
The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) is pleased to offer live recurring virtual training events on violence prevention to community safety stakeholders throughout the year.
The first two training topics are:
- Enhancing School Safety Using Behavioral Threat Assessment
- Preventing Mass Attacks in Our Communities
There are more details on the US Secret Service Virtual Monthly Training Registration Event website.
Analyst Comments:
The US Secret Service offers three iterations of both training topics. This training runs from December through May. Many opportunities are provided for those concerned about communities of faith safety.
Many Faith-Based Organizations operate schools. Among others, the Enhancing School Safety Using Behavioral Threat Assessment is aimed at teachers, administrators, counsellors. Of special interest is that the training will discuss “…how some schools discovered and stopped plots before violence occurred”.
During the Preventing Mass Attacks in Our Communities training, the NTAC researchers will discuss mass attacks in public and semi-public spaces, including houses of worship and schools. Among others, the training is aimed at faith-based community leaders.
Additionally, NTAC has published several reports on school security and mass attacks in public spaces.
More Faith-Based Stories
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Vandal damages more than $20K in property at Michigan City church on Thanksgiving morning
FBI Houston, HCSO search for suspect in Baitus Samee Mosque vandalism
NC: Northeast Charlotte church says four of their heating units were stolen
CA: Church cleared of wrongdoing after media outlet prompts review of ballot-collection campaign
Freed Israeli-US hacker behind JCC bomb threats detained in Norway on US extradition request. (Including bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers in the United States.)
Vandals Target Nativity Scene in Lebanon (A gun was left behind.)
Holocaust Monuments Defaced in Poland
Canada: Rainbow Steps Vandalized After Inclusive Public Hymn Sing
Select All Hazard Stories
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Russian Woman Arrested In U.S. For Alleged Ties To Russian Intelligence
South Korea President Yoon declares martial law
Inside the influential white-supremacist conference that calls Tennessee ‘home away from home’
As sabotage allegations swirl, NATO struggles to secure the Baltic Sea and Recent suspected underwater sabotage incidents in the Baltic Sea
Sweden charges alleged IS trio with terror plot
Islamist Terror Incidents Targeting U.S. Increase in 2024 | ADL
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INTERPOL campaign warns against cyber and financial crimes
US agency proposes new rule blocking data brokers from selling Americans’ sensitive personal data
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