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By Bambi Majumdar
 We are more vulnerable than ever to online fraud, scams, theft, and abuse. Stringent cybersecurity measures go hand in hand with increased law enforcement capabilities that are essential to safeguarding individuals and businesses. Departments across the country are signing up for advanced training sessions that teach officers how to investigate crimes involving advanced technologies, dismantle darknet marketplaces, and thwart cybercriminals.
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NMLEA
The National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) has been working with its state and local law enforcement partners nationally to better integrate their efforts into the larger maritime community. This collaboration revealed the need for training to expose state and local law enforcement analysts and officers to the intricacies of the maritime shipping industry. In response to that need, NMIO, with production assistance from the National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy (NMLEA), created a course, Introduction to Maritime Industry, for use by members of the global maritime community of interest.
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NMLEA
The Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence invite analysts who are U.S. citizens to apply for the 2020 Public-Private Analytic Exchange Program (AEP). Applicants from all industries are encouraged to apply but should have an interest and/or demonstrated expertise in at least one of the 2020 topics. Applicants are welcome to express an interest in up to three of the 2020 topics, but each selected program participant will only be assigned to one team. Applications from first-time participants will be given priority consideration over previous AEP participants. Selected applicants will be notified of their selection in November 2019 and will be expected to attend a kick-off meeting in Washington, D.C. January 2020.
The AEP Application consists of three items - applicants are requested to submit the Application along with a copy of their resume/CV, while applicants' supervisors should submit the Supervisor Endorsement Form. Both forms can be found online here. Please note - applications will only be considered if an application, resume, and supervisor endorsement are all provided by the deadline of' November 8th, 2019.
For more details on the program, click on this this link.
The River City News
October was National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and as it wrapped up for the 16th year, it’s never been more important. Cybercrime has reached epidemic levels, The University of Maryland found that an attack occurs every 39 seconds on average, affecting one in three Americans every year, and security company McAfee reported there are 480 new high-tech threats now introduced every minute.
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WBZ - TV
The two men and a dog who were reported missing recently after leaving the coast of Rhode Island have been found alive. According to the Coast Guard, they were found by an air rescue crew 100 miles east of Cape Henry, Virginia. Ryan Hollis and Joshua Kane Cairone, left Jamestown, Rhode Island, on recently in a 43-foot Beneteau sailing boat. Hollis was reported missing after he did not contact his girlfriend at a stop in Norfolk, Virginia as planned.
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City Lab
In March 2018, hackers targeted Atlanta’s computer networks. Demanding $51,000 in bitcoins, the cyberattack held the city hostage for nearly a week. Some city services reverted to pen and paper to continue operations. But the city refused to pay: It didn’t want to reward and encourage more ransomware attacks, and there was no guarantee that systems would be restored even if it paid. Ultimately, the financial hit to the city was far higher than the ransom. One city report uncovered by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution estimated that the costs associated with the attack could reach as high as $17 million.
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CT Post
One man died and three more were taken to Bridgeport Hospital after their boat capsized Sunday morning in Long Island Sound. According to Bridgeport, Connecticut, police spokesman Terron Jones, Guard Long Island Sound announced over marine frequency that there was a capsized boat located in the area of Middle Ground, Long Island Sound in Stratford, Connecticut. It was reported that the boat originally had four people aboard.
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Security Boulevard
More and more, businesses blame cyberattacks on “human error,” that single employee who, either accidentally or maliciously, made a decision that resulted in a security breach. You probably remember the 2017 Equifax breach that exposed over 145 million Americans’ personal information. At the time, the ex-CEO blamed a single employee for failing to install a patch for a vulnerability that the hackers then exploited. But a recent lawsuit argues that the breach was actually the inevitable result of Equifax’s poor cybersecurity practices. How poor? Equifax was protecting sensitive information on a portal to manage credit disputes by using “admin” as both the username and the password.
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Maritime Executive
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a Marine Accident Brief about an accident occurring on November 18, 2018, involving the liftboat Ram XVIII which overturned in the Gulf of Mexico about 15 miles south-southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the overturning was the industry practice of not regularly providing liftboat operators with adequate information about the seafloor composition, which resulted in the instability of the port leg due to unidentified conditions/hazards in seabed composition near the port leg landing site.
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The Times
Mike Barcaskey writes "Hey there, Captain! How was the boating season? Plenty of fun days on the water I bet. But where is that boat now? Still in a slip? On the driveway? Or worse yet in the backyard under an old tarp? The sun filled days may be over but attending to your boat and other boat-related matters is always in season. Ed Crognale of Boat World in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, has seen plenty of problems due to the lack of winterizing. 'Cracked blocks, manifolds, drives. Lots of problems occur from not winterizing your boat,' said Crognale."
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