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On Our Virtual Route 66 As as New Quarter Dawns: On Being Prepared

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 As a new month is before us, our team reflected upon the month that was as September was National Preparedness Month as we present a look back especially as Florida and South Carolina were hit hard due to Hurricanes:   National Preparedness Month Each month, we shine a spotlight on notable observances, anniversaries, and historical events. In this newsletter, we'll cover National Preparedness Month and explore data about emergency management and response. Learn More
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On Our "Virtual Route 66" This Week: On Our World

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  Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploiting Vulnerabilities for Data Extortion and Disk Encryption for Ransom Operations 09/14/2022 10:33 AM EDT Original release date: September 14, 2022 CISA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. Cyber Command (USCC) - Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), Department of the Treasury, Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), and United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA),  Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploiting Vulnerabilities for Data Extortion and Disk Encryption for Ransom Operations . This advisory updates  previous joint reporting  from November 2021, to highlight continued malicious cyber activity by advanced persistent threat (APT) actors that the authoring agencies now assess are associated with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Gua
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On Our "Virtual Route 66" : #RandomThoughts For the Week-End

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  We present the following #RandomThoughts courtesy Bloomberg and the Uprising Team as our journey of service continues: Switzerland’s glaciers are becoming a front-row seat to climate destruction For most of its existence glaciology has been a slow-moving profession, but this year is different. The belting heat waves that struck Europe over the past few months handed the specialists in Alpine ice sheets an unprecedented set of challenges. And some of their charges — like the Vadret dal Corvatsch glacier above the Engadin valley — aren’t going to be around much longer. Late last month, Matthias Huss, the head of Switzerland’s glacier monitoring body GLAMOS announced that his measuring station at Corvatsch was being shut down, a “bitter” outcome of extreme melting this year that left little ice left to measure.  Matthias Huss, left, adjusts his measurement pole, left, while colleagues insert a Kovacs drill into the ice on the Plaine Morte glacier, on Aug. 30.  Photographer: Jeff Black/B
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