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A prison officer is facing time behind bars after helping to smuggle cocaine into one of Scotland’s most notorious maximum-security jails.
Heather McKenzie was working at HMP Shotts – home to some of the country’s most hardened criminals – when she teamed up with convicted murderer Zak Malavin to supply drugs to inmates.
Prison officials and police started an investigation after noticing a significant rise in the quantities of drugs being found in the jail – and receiving a tip-off about possible staff corruption.
Intelligence suggested McKenzie, 31, was illegally bringing drugs and mobile phones into the prison.
Heather McKenzie (pictured) was working at HMP Shotts – home to some of the country’s most hardened criminals – when she teamed up with a convicted murderer
Zak Malavin who is serving life for murdering a man in a park by attacking him with a sword, was found to have an iPhone, 1.45g of cocaine and a sleeping pill in his cell
Malavin, serving life for murdering a man in a park by attacking him with a sword, was found to have an iPhone, 1.45g of cocaine and a sleeping pill in his cell when officers searched it in May 2020.
A search the following month uncovered two knotted bags containing a further 5.7g of cocaine, while data on the iPhone revealed texts and calls to McKenzie.
Police later raided McKenzie’s home in Forth, Lanarkshire, and arrested her after finding £2,500 in cash, mobile phones, syringes and trenbolone – a powerful steroid – as well as traces of cocaine and 28g of another drug, benzocaine.
An iPhone found by police had a missed WhatsApp call from a contact named ‘Zak’….
A tour through the busy halls and classrooms of our K-12 public schools would not reveal any clues to the underlying threat they face daily from cyber threat actors intent on disrupting the digital safety and security of students, staff, and their data. K-12 schools have emerged in the past several years as one of the most frequently targeted of our public institutions in the United States. While the hardworking IT and cyber professionals in this sector have made great strides in applying effective cyber defenses, more can be done. The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) produced our first K-12 Report as a way for K-12 leaders to better understand their cyber risk and take decisive actions to mitigate it.
At the MS-ISAC, we have a unique vantage point to view the cybersecurity challenges and threats faced by various critical infrastructure sectors among state and local governments in the U.S. We manage the largest cyber threat database on U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) governments, informed by telemetry from thousands of sensors deployed across SLTT networks, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and more than 200 threat intelligence sources. We process more than 100 petabytes of data each month – the equivalent of two billion four-drawer filing cabinets full of information related to the cybersecurity of state and local governments. While our more than 3,700 K-12 school and district members are among the most highly targeted, they are also among the most active segment of our 14,000 organizational members in the MS-ISAC. Given the cyber threat they face, they have to be.
The cybersecurity threat to K-12 schools is persistent, and the potential harm of cyber attacks threatens both the vital work of our education system and the data security of an entire generation of young Americans. Ransomware remains the most impactful cybersecurity threat to K-12 schools, often resulting in significant financial loss and taking schools offline for days. Some K-12 ransomware attacks have taken months to fully remediate. Cyber threat actors’ demands seemed to have increased over time, with ransom demands exceeding…
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