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Thursday, March 31, 2022
AGENDA TODAY MESA CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION: Proposed Budget FY2022/2023, Capital Improvement Program
The second one, curiously enough is only for "non-utilities" - there are good reasons to exclude those! 
Are you ready to see what the agenda is ahead of time? It was released only just the day before!
To take action on and to Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on the following.
This 07:30 early morning session has 3 items. The Final Agenda was printed how many days beforehand on The Council, Board and Committee Research Center where you - and the seven Councilmembers - have had time to access and to read the information to be presented. . . | Meeting Name: | City Council Study Session | Agenda status: | Final |
| Meeting date/time: | 3/31/2022 7:30 AM | Minutes status: | Draft |
| Meeting location: | Lower Council Chambers | ||
| Published agenda: |  Agenda | Published minutes: | Not available | |
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MEETING DETAIL Item 2-a
| File #: | 22-0454 |
| Type: | Presentation | Status: | Agenda Ready |
| In control: | City Council Study Session |
| On agenda: | 3/31/2022 |
| Title: | Hear a presentation and discuss the fiscal year 2022/2023 summary of the proposed budget. |
| Attachments: | 1. Presentation, 2. Council Report |
MEETING DETAIL Item 2-b
| File #: | 22-0455 |
| Type: | Presentation | Status: | Agenda Ready |
| In control: | City Council Study Session |
| On agenda: | 3/31/2022 |
| Title: | Hear a presentation and discuss non-utility projects included in the Capital Improvement Program. |
| Attachments: | 1. Presentation |
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BOOMING EMPLOYMENT MECCA
Jabjiniak credits Mesa’s development-friendly environment to the city’s founders, “whose foresight for infrastructure development has made the area extremely attractive today,” he says.Mesa Named Regional Owner-Developer of the Year
"The bustling Phoenix suburb of Mesa has attracted a wide variety of new construction projects in the past couple of years, turning this former bedroom community into a booming employment mecca with dozens of big name firms moving to town. Much of the growth is due to the often behind-the-scenes planning and coordination of the Mesa Office of Economic Development (OED), which has worked strategically to align key elements that create an attractive environment for development.
Although not a traditional developer, the Mesa OED does what most municipal economic development organizations do: It works to stimulate business in the area; brings in new projects, companies and jobs; and targets diverse industries.
Last year the OED far surpassed even its own ambitious goals for new initiatives. The organization aimed to bring 32 new companies into the area and attracted 46; its capital investment goal was $400 million, it achieved $1.25 billion; and while the organization’s new business square footage goal was 400,000 sq ft, the actual amount produced was 3.7 million sq ft, according to the OED’s annual report.
A few of the Mesa projects that made news in 2020-21 include the Facebook (Meta) data center ($800 million); CMC Steel Micro Mill, a “green steel” production facility ($300 million); Legacy Sports Complex ($250 million); Google data center ($250 million); Banner Health Medical Center Women’s Health Tower ($75 million); NTT data center ($70 million); Mesa Gateway Spec Warehouse ($70 million); and the Comarch data center ($20 million). While these projects have different owners, contractors and design teams, all of them were brought to the area by the team at Mesa OED. . .
You can read more of that media over-hype Go here >> https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/mesa-named-regional-owner-developer-of-the-year/
UNRELENTING BARRAGE OF BREACHES, THREATS + CYBER ATTACKS | Bleeping Computer
Globant confirms hack after Lapsus$ leaks 70GB of stolen data
"IT and software consultancy firm Globant has confirmed that they were breached by the Lapsus$ data extortion group, where data consisting of administrator credentials and source code was leaked by the threat actors.
As part of the leak, the hacking group released a 70GB archive of data stolen from Globant, describing it as “some customers source code.”
Source code and private keys
Globant is an IT and software development firm with over 16,000 employees worldwide and $1.2 billion in revenue for 2021.
Founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Globant is currently headquartered in Luxembourg and boasts a well-known list of customers, including Metropolitan Police, SmileDirectClub, Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Santander, Interbank, Royal Carribbean, and many more.
Following the leak from Lapsus$, Globant issued a press release confirming that some of the company source code has been exposed to an unauthorized party.
“We have recently detected that a limited section of our company's code repository has been subject to unauthorized access” - Globant
Among the data published by Lapsus$, there is a screenshot the group claims to be of an archived directory from Globant, containing folder names that appear to be company customers.
Some of the source code folders listed in the screenshot include, Abbott, apple-health-app, C-span, Fortune, Facebook, DHL, and Arcserve. . .
The metadata for the entries shows that the folders have been modified on March 29, which could indicate when the data was stolen.
In a follow-up post, Lapsus$ published a set of credentials for what they say give administrator access to various platforms used by Globant for developing, reviewing, and collaborating on customer code (Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Crucible). . .
According to threat intelligence company SOS Intelligence, the leaked data contains customer information as well as a code repositories with a large number of private keys (full chain, web server SSL certificates, Globant server, API keys).
One of the repositories is for the Bluecap app for consultancy in the financial sector, that Globant acquired in late 2020. . .
The cache that Lapsus$ leaked also includes a little over 150 SQL database files for various customer applications, SOS Intelligence says.
"In terms of legitimacy, going just by volume alone it's hard to fabricate that amount of data - however samples of the data have been cross referenced with live systems and other methods that show the leak is legitimate and very significant as far as Globant and Globant's impacted customers are concerned" - SOS Intelligence
Globant said today that its investigation into the incident did not reveal any evidence that the hackers compromised other parts of its infrastructure system.
Lapsus$ on LE radar
The Lapsus$ data extortion group has been constantly making the news due to their attacks on big technological companies, like Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, Okta, Ubisoft, many of them resulting in big data leaks.
Despite the big names on their victim list, Lapsus$ is believed to be formed mainly by teenagers exercising their hacking skills driven mainly by making a name on the hacking scene, not by financial motivation.
The group has been on the radar of law enforcement for a while and some individuals, all teens believed to be connected to Lapsus$, have been arrested in the U.K.
The FBI is also investigating the activities of the group and has asked the public for any information leading to identifying Lapsus$ members involved in the compromise of computer networks from U.S.-based companies."
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LAPSUS$ CYBERATTACKS: Latest news on the prolific hacking group run by teens
Lapsus$ cyberattacks: the latest news on the hacking group
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A prolific hacking group run by teens
"The Lapsus$ hacking group first made headlines when it waged a ransomware attack against the Brazilian Ministry of Health in December 2021, compromising the COVID-19 vaccination data of millions within the country.
Since then, it has targeted a number of high-profile technology companies, stealing data from Nvidia, Samsung, Microsoft, and Vodafone. Lapsus$ also managed to disrupt some of Ubisoft’s services and also gained access to an Okta contractor’s laptop, putting the data of thousands of companies that use the service at risk. It’s also suspected to be behind last year’s attack on EA Games.
Shortly after the attack on Okta, a report pinned an England-based teenager as the mastermind behind the hacking group and said another teen member may reside in Brazil. One member of the group is reportedly so skilled at hacking that researchers thought their work was automated. On March 24th, the London police made seven arrests in connection with the Lapsus$ group, all of whom are teenagers.
Here are all the latest updates on the Lapsus$ group.
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