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Former TTCC Board Member Is Now Gilford Superintendent
Gilford Man Indicted On Sexual Assault Charges
Following a cybersecurity summit on Wednesday, the White House announced that Apple plans to make security improvements across its technology supply chains; Google said it would invest more than $10 billion over five years to strengthen cybersecurity and train Americans in technical fields such as IT support and data analytics; Microsoft committed $20 billion over five years to deliver more advanced security tools; and IBM said it would train more than 150,000 people in cybersecurity skills.
Meanwhile, cybersecurity expert Joe Weiss is serving on an Engineering Infrastructure Resilience Panel during a gathering of the World Federation of Scientists’ Permanent Monitoring Panel for Catastrophic Risk Mitigation. His presentation will address off-line monitoring of process sensors that avoids the possibility of being hacked, an approach recently approved by the Israel Water Authority for monitoring the water systems there. Weiss has long argued that the current focus on information technology ignores the risks inherent in the operational technology that, for instance, governs systems such as the Colonial Pipeline.
More traditional hacks, intended to extract money from unsuspecting victims, came home to New Hampshire when Peterborough officials disclosed that the town lost $2.3 million to cyber criminals who posed as officials from the ConVal School District. The town became aware in July that the $1.2 million monthly transfer meant for the school district had been transferred into cryptocurrency. An investigation by the U.S. Secret Service Cyber Fraud Task Force found that cyber crooks had forged ConVal identities to pull off the scam. Then, on Aug. 18, Finance Department staff learned that two bank transfers meant to go to Beck and Bellucci, the general contractor working on the Main Street Bridge project, also had been diverted to thieves through similar means.
Former TTCC Board Member Is Now Gilford Superintendent
Robert Gadomski, who had served on the Bristol Recreation Advisory Council for the Tapply-Thompson Community Center when he first moved to New Hampshire in 1989, is wearing another hat today, as interim superintendent for the Gilford School District. He stepped in when Superintendent Kirk Beitler was placed on indefinite administrative leave after being arrested on a charge of domestic violence-related simple assault.
Gadomski, who had just retired as Somersworth’s school superintendent in June, accepted the offer to work part-time on a flexible schedule in Gilford, telling the Laconia Daily Sun that he enjoys education leadership. He previously had served 10 years in the Shaker Regional School District, including 6½ years as principal at Belmont Middle School.
Gadomski holds a doctoral degree in education leadership, and has served as a classroom teacher, athletic director, assistant principal, principal, assistant superintendent, and superintendent.
Gilford Man Indicted On Sexual Assault Charges
Victor Malavet, 59, of Gilford, has been indicted by a Merrimack County Superior Court Grand Jury on seven counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault as a result of allegations by a former resident of the Youth Detention Services Unit.
The indictments, alleging crimes in 2001, came during an ongoing investigation into the Youth Development Center, Youth Detention Services Unit, and Sununu Youth Services Center.
An indictment is not a finding of guilt, but an independent jury’s decision, after hearing from police, that sufficient evidence exists to warrant a court trial.
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