Thursday, December 20, 2012
Daily Report
Top Stories
• Swiss bank UBS admitted to fraud in connection
with colluding with other banks to manipulate the Libor rate and paid a $1.5
billion fine to U.S., U.K., and Swiss authorities. – Reuters See item 5
below in the Banking and Finance Sector
• Freight traffic was briefly halted on
stretch of rail and a 48-hour safety moratorium was issued for passenger trains
after a mudslide derailed a freight train in Everette, Washington. – Associated
Press
11.
December 18, Associated Press –
(Washington) Freight train traffic resumes after WA derailment. Freight
traffic was briefly halted on stretch of rail and a 48-hour safety moratorium
was issued for passenger trains after a mudslide derailed a freight train in
Everette, Washington. Source: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019930854_apwabnsfmudslides.html
• Georgia postal employees plead guilty to
stealing approximately $3 million in Treasury checks that included veterans
checks, Social Security checks, and tax refunds. – Daily Caller
12.
December 19, Daily Caller – (Georgia) Former
postal employees plead guilty to stealing millions. Georgia postal
employees plead guilty to stealing approximately $3 million in Treasury checks
that included veterans checks, Social Security checks, and tax refunds. Source:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/19/former-postal-employees-plead-guilty-to-stealing-millions-in-treasury-checks/
• A Los Angeles doctor that recruited and
unnecessarily hospitalized up to 60 homeless people per month was sentenced to
one year in federal prison and ordered to pay $11 million in restitution to
Medicare. – Imperial Valley News
19.
December 18, Imperial Valley News –
(California) Orange County doctor sentenced to year in prison in $11 million
Medicare scam. A Los Angeles doctor that recruited and unnecessarily
hospitalized up to 60 homeless people per month was sentenced to one year in
federal prison and ordered to pay $11 million in restitution to Medicare.
Source: http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/news/california-news/2662-orange-county-doctor-sentenced-to-year-in-prison-in-11-million-medicare-scam.html
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Banking and Finance Sector
4. December 19, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission –
(National) SEC charges advisory firms and portfolio managers for roles in
collapse of Midwest-based closed-end mutual fund. Two portfolio managers
and two advisory firms accountable for risky derivative strategies were charged
by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the loss of more than $45
million from the Fiduciary/Claymore Dynamic Equity fund in 2008. Source: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2012/2012-272.htm
5. December 19, Reuters – (International) UBS
fined $1.5 billion in growing Libor scandal. Swiss bank UBS admitted to
fraud in connection with colluding with other banks to manipulate the Libor
rate and paid a $1.5 billion fine to U.S., U.K., and Swiss authorities. Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/19/us-ubs-libor-idUSBRE8BI00020121219
6. December 18, Macon Telegraph – (National) Men
accused of credit card fraud in Perry may be linked to Miami crime ring. Twelve
men arrested in Georgia for credit card fraud may be part of a Miami-based
identity theft and fraud ring that operates in several States along Interstate
75, according to police. Source: http://www.macon.com/2012/12/18/2289641/men-accused-of-perry-credit-card.html
7. December 18, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission –
(International) SEC revokes registration of Toronto-based broker and bans
two executives from U.S. securities industry for allowing layering. Two
executives along with their Toronto-based Biremis brokerage firm were charged
by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for ignoring overseas day
traders that repeatedly engaged in layering from 2007 to 2010. Source: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2012/2012-271.htm
For more stories, see
items 27 and 28 below in the Information Technology Sector
Information Technology Sector
27.
December 19, Help Net Security –
(International) Apache malware targeting online banking. ESET detected
and analyzed a malicious Apache module dubbed “Linux/Chapro.A” and discovered
that the popular Web server is being used to unknowingly inject malicious
content into Web pages designed to steal customers’ banking information.
Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2364
28.
December 18, Threatpost –
(International) Sweet Orange Exploit Kit offers customers higher infection
rates. Researchers at Blue Coat Security found that the emerging Sweet
Orange Exploit Kit is promising 10-25 percent infection rates, the ability to
bring 150,000 users per day to compromised Web sites, and that a sample of the
kit’s domains and IP addresses had a low or zero detection rate in VirusTotal.
Source: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/sweet-orange-exploit-kit-offers-customers-higher-infection-rates-121812
Communications Sector
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