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Reposted from The Independent
A man has been jailed after an off-duty police officer noticed him upskirting a woman at the British Museum. Metropolitan Police officers launched an investigation after an off-duty City of London Police officer spotted Jake Verano Gomez filming up a woman’s skirt on 19 August. They discovered several videos on his phone. Upskirting, defined as the act of covertly filming or taking a picture under a person’s skirt without gaining their consent, was made a criminal offence in England and Wales in April 2019. The offence now carries a punishment of up to two years in custody under the Voyeurism Act and the most serious cases see wrongdoers placed on the sex offenders’ register. Verano Gomez, a 33-year-old Colombian national with no fixed address, was sentenced to four months in prison and ordered to pay court fees at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on 21 August. He pleaded guilty to recording an image under clothes without gaining the person’s consent. He will be forced to register with the police, in line with the 2003 Sexual Offences Act, for up to seven years. The Met Police has requested women who believe they may have fallen prey to his upskirting to come forward for support. The female police officer rapidly detained the man alongside museum security guards and workers before Met Police officers came and placed him in custody.
Detective Constable Holly Wright, of the Public Protection team covering Camden, said: “These kinds of offences have a devastating impact on women and girls, who should be free to go about their lives without fear of being the victim of such a horrendous crime. “Fortunately, the presence of our colleague from City of London Police has meant Gomez has now been brought to justice. “Following his arrest Gomez’s phone was interrogated by Met detectives, they found a number of videos of other victims – also believed to have been filmed that day. Sadly, this may mean there are more women who are unaware that they have been the victim of crime.” Detective Wright urged those who were at the British Museum on Monday 19 August at around 2pm who believe they may have fallen victim to come forward to the police. Officers asked people to ring 101 or post @MetCC reference CAD 4342/19Aug. It comes after Gina Martin spent 18 months fighting to make upskirting a specific offence after a man took a picture up her skirt at a festival in 2017.
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Reposted from BBC
Ariel Geller's family was invited for a guided tour of Haifa's Hecht Museum in Israel, a few days after the four-year-old smashed a rare, 3,500-year-old jar in the museum. The museum told the BBC the crockery dated back to the Bronze Age between 2200 and 1500BC - and was a rare artefact because it was so intact. The jar was one of the artefacts kept out in the open, part of the museum's vision of allowing visitors explore the past without any glass or barriers. The jar was most likely originally intended to be used to carry local supplies, such as wine and olive oil. It predates the time of the Biblical King David and King Solomon and is characteristic of the Canaan region on the eastern Mediterranean coast.
Reposted from CISA/DHS
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) published joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) #StopRansomware: RansomHub Ransomware, formerly known as Cyclops and Knight, that has established itself as an efficient and successful model. This advisory provides known indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) associated with RansomHub identified through FBI investigations and third-party reporting as recently as August 2024. A ransomware-as-a-service, RansomHub has encrypted systems and exfiltrated data from at least 210 victims representing all critical infrastructure sectors using a double-extortion model. Phishing emails, exploitation of known vulnerabilities, and password spraying are typical methods used by RansomHub affiliates to compromise internet facing system and user endpoints; password spraying targets accounts compromised through data breaches. Recommended mitigations and actions to protect against RansomHub include installing updates for operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as they are released, requiring phishing-resistant multifactor authentication (MFA) for as many services as possible, and training users to recognize and report phishing attempts. Organizations are encouraged to review the advisory, IOCs, TTPs, and implement recommended mitigations to protect against ransomware threat actors. Organizations are also encouraged to visit stopransomware.gov, a whole-of-government approach with one central location for no-cost U.S. ransomware resources and alerts, to access an updated Joint #StopRansomware Guide.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) moved its cyber incident reporting form to the new CISA Services Portal as part of its ongoing effort to improve cyber incident reporting. The Portal is a secure platform with enhanced functionality for cyber incident reporting, including integration with login.gov credentials. The portal’s enhanced functionality includes the ability to save and update reports, share submitted reports with colleagues or clients for third-party reporting, and search and filter reports. A new collaboration feature allows users to engage in informal discussions with CISA. To guide incident reporters through the reporting process, CISA also released a voluntary cyber incident reporting resource. It helps entities understand “who” should report an incident, “why and when” they should report, as well as “what and how to report.” Several resources to reduce cyber risk are also available. CISA encourages all organizations to take advantage of its new streamlined portal and voluntarily report cyber incidents. Learn more by visiting the CISA Services Portal and Voluntary Cyber Incident Reporting Resource.
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Reposted from EMR-ISAC
Last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a report, Emergency Management of Tomorrow Research: Landscape Assessment.
The report offers a summary of peer-reviewed research in emergency management (EM) from 2018 to 2023. The report was compiled in support of the Emergency Management of Tomorrow Research (EMOTR) Program, which is administered by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) with support from DHS S&T.
The purpose of this report was to identify current EM research, elicit capability needs from EM practitioners, and identify where technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), may benefit the future of EM and emergency operations centers. As part of the EMOTR Program, the findings of the report will support DHS S&T in exploring future investment options for technology used by emergency management practitioners.
Some notable findings of the report include:
CISA hosts a quarterly webinar series on Emergency Services Sector Resilience for homeland security, public safety, emergency management and emergency response personnel. The series is facilitated by CISA’s Emergency Services Sector Management Team and focuses on topics of interest to ESS stakeholders. The next webinar in the series is scheduled for Wednesday, August 28, at 1 p.m. EDT. The webinar will feature this newsletter’s own Emergency Management and Response – Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC). The EMR-ISAC is managed by the U.S. Fire Administration, and works with CISA, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and the National Counterterrorism Center to advance information sharing and initiatives on behalf of the emergency services sector. The EMR-ISAC administers the Emergency Services (ES) community on the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN). With more than 3,000 active users, HSIN-ES has become an information clearinghouse for emergency services professionals across the United States. Whether they need information about a significant incident, or are researching a potential threat to their jurisdiction, emergency services leaders know they can turn to HSIN-ES to get answers. The EMR-ISAC publishes the weekly InfoGram to 186,000+ members of the Emergency Services Sector from federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial organizations. Each edition contains timely and relevant information regarding responder safety, awareness, planning, prevention, education, training, and funding opportunities affecting emergency services sector personnel nationwide.
Join the webinar to learn more about the EMR-ISAC and the services it provides. No advanced registration is required to join this webinar. To participate, save the date of Wednesday, August 28, at 1 p.m. EDT and go to CISA’s HSIN Connect Room at the scheduled time to join: https://share.dhs.gov/emrisac/. To learn more about this webinar and share with colleagues, see CISA’s downloadable webinar flyer.
Reposted from Tim Richardson
“Enjoy 5G at the Major League Allstar game and elevate the experience!” wrote an executive at a T-Mobile recently. So, you can stream the latest show while watching the Allstar game? No thanks. I would love to attend athletic events, theater performances, conventions, and concerts where people were fully engaged in the experience, not glued to their phones or other screens! Sadly, there are increasingly fewer places to fully disconnect. Moments without distraction are few and far between in our world. Screens competing for our attention are seemingly everywhere – at the gas pump, at individual tables in restaurants, in waiting rooms, throughout airports, at sports arenas, concert venues, and even places of worship. In his book Deep Work, Cal Newport argues that the more distractions we allow into our lives, the more unable we will be able to accomplish deep, focused work. Deep work is where creativity and problem-solving flourish. Deep work is where entrepreneurship happens. Deep work is where big ideas are born. Deep work is thoughtful and thorough. We need to create time and space for this type of work, but it’s nearly impossible to escape the barrage of information competing for our attention and brain power to do that deep work. I’m sure that you’ve experienced a conversation with someone who couldn’t stop looking at their phone. Didn’t every single notification cause an awkward lapse in your discussion? People with those habits are very far from the self-mastery that Newport recommends for Deep Work. This is where regular digital pauses can be really helpful.
Maybe you could start by adopting a Tech less Tuesday. Block out part of your day to engage more with people minimizing or even eliminating the use of any technology during predetermined times. If you lean heavily on AI for help, ask for a trusted colleague for input instead. Purposefully plan some unstructured time free from digital distractions. Strengthening the muscles of focus and attentiveness can only happen when we have the discipline to say no to the distractions all around us while creating space for thinking. Just because we can watch movies on the airplane doesn’t mean we should. Just because we have a ChatGPT subscription doesn’t mean we allow it to think for us. Just because we have a smart phone doesn’t mean it Focus and attention are extremely limited resources today. If we don’t regularly practice using our brain power and deep-thinking ability, we’ll surely start to lose the ability to do both well.
Reposted from AMM
Association of Midwest Museums Receives IMLS National Leadership Grant for Museums Award
Grant award will support expansion of the Museum Learning Hub to include training workshops and resources for the development of frontline and middle managers
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) recently announced that the Association of Midwest Museums (AMM) is one of 18 institutions to receive a National Leadership Grants for Museums award in 2024. The grant award of $102,282 will support the expansion of on-demand training offerings on the cross-regional Museum Learning Hub through the creation of workshops and resources focused on developing frontline and middle management staff.
This initiative - Workplace Transformation Through Management Training - is the result of collective reflection and member input on post-pandemic museum values, practices, and needs during AMM’s 2023 Essential Questions Program Series. One priority that emerged in this process was a need for training and resources that will help museums as they seek to establish a work culture that is equitable, psychologically safe, prioritizes employee well-being, makes space for risk-taking and creativity, and doesn’t stigmatize mistakes.
While organizational change may be envisioned at the top of an institution’s hierarchy, implementation often falls on the shoulders of frontline and middle managers and their teams. Managers who may have been appointed to their roles with limited experience managing people are faced with more complex workloads as they attempt to sustain operations while also playing an active role in change efforts. As these managers navigate new supervisory responsibilities and balance it with their own workloads, they struggle to make space for reflection and feedback, to envision and implement change, and to think strategically about their own departments’ needs. Furthermore, if their organization’s financial resources are limited, so too are their options for seeking support or professional development outside of the organization.
The Workplace Transformation Through Management Training Initiative will build the capacity of frontline and middle managers through the creation of approximately 24 training sessions/workshops organized into six online training modules for publication on the Museum Learning HubⓇ, along with supplementary toolkits. These free online tools will develop soft skills, such as emotional intelligence, as well as business and operational acumen to help managers become more effective in their day-to-day work. AMM will work collaboratively with a team of expert consultant advisors to determine the focus of each online learning module and—with input from a focus group of managers from small to midsize museums in the Midwest, the AMM Board, and our regional association partners—recruit instructors with subject matter expertise to develop and teach the workshops. The rollout of the new resources on the Museum Learning HubⓇ is expected to take place over the course of 2026.
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