Complete DHS Daily Report for September 25, 2013
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• TD Bank agreed to pay $52.5 million to
settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it failed to report
suspicious activity in bank accounts controlled by a Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
resident who ran a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. – USA Today See item 9 below in the Banking and Financial Services Sector
• The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention issued an update September 23 reporting that the number of Hepatitis
A cases associated with Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend reached 162.– Food
Safety News
23.
September 24, Food Safety News –
(National) CDC: Hepatitis A outbreak now at 162 cases in 10 States. The
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an update September 23
reporting that the number of Hepatitis A cases associated with Townsend Farms
Organic Antioxidant Blend totals 162, with 71 people having been hospitalized.
Source: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/09/cdc-hepatitis-a-outbreak-now-at-162-cases-in-10-states/
• Thieves broke into an unattended Station 5
fire engine while it was on a medical call the week of September 16 in
Arlington, Virginia, and stole a set of keys that allow access to secure areas
in the metro system. – WRC-TV 4 Washington, D.C.
31.
September 23, WRC-TV 4 Washington, D.C. –
(Virginia) Keys with metro access stolen from Va. fire engine. Thieves
broke into a Station 5 fire engine that was left unattended during a medical
call the week of September 16 in Arlington, Virginia and stole a set of keys
that allow access to secure areas in the metro system. Officials have taken
measures to prevent future thefts and are continuing to investigate. Source: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Keys-With-Metro-Access-Stolen-from-Va-Fire-Engine-224957012.html
• Colorado is initiating a dam inspection program
for 200 dams over 10 days after heavy rainfall led to the failure of several
low-risk dams and prevented access to 20 dams by washing out access roads. – Denver
Post
38.
September 23, Denver Post – (Colorado)
Colorado launching massive emergency dam inspection program. Colorado is
initiating a dam inspection program for 200 dams over 10 days after heavy
rainfall led to 9 low-risk dams that breached, the overflowing of an uncounted
number of small ponds, and 20 other dams that can only be reached by helicopter
due to the wash out of the roads below them. Source: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24153355/colorado-launching-massive-emergency-dam-inspection-progam
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Banking and Finance Sector
9. September 23, USA Today – (Florida) Regulators
fine TD Bank $52.5 million in Ponzi case. TD Bank agreed to pay $52.5
million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it
failed to report suspicious activity in bank accounts controlled by a Fort
Lauderdale resident who ran a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/23/td-bank-sec-settlement/2856763/
10. September 23, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission –
(New York) SEC charges 10 brokers for roles in McGinn Smith Ponzi scheme. The
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged 10 former brokers at
Albany-based McGinn Smith & Co. for allegedly making misrepresentations and
omissions to customers when recommending unregistered investment products used
in a $125 million Ponzi scheme run by the owners of the firm. Source: http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370539829837
11. September 23, Kansas City Star – (Missouri) Aluminum
foils security, shields credit-card crooks from detection. Police in Kansas
City reported that since the weekend of September 21 thieves have three times
used aluminum foil to cover satellite antennae at local businesses to prevent
their credit card fraud from being detected. Source: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/09/23/4503405/credit-card-crooks-use-simple.html
12. September 23, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission –
(New York) SEC charges independent filmmaker with insider trading. A New
York City filmmaker agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle charges filed
by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he engaged in insider
trading with a business partner who gave him confidential information learned
in his job at a consulting firm, which allowed the filmmaker and a
coconspirator to make more than $2.6 million in illicit profits. Source: http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370539826717
13. September 23, Alaska Native News – (Alaska) Anchorage
plastic surgeon indicted by Anchorage grand jury on wire fraud charges. An
Anchorage plastic surgeon was indicted September 20 for allegedly engaging in
wire fraud to defraud his wife and Alaska State Courts in divorce proceeding by
transferring over $4 million to a bank account in Panama in 2007 and 2008. The
alleged fraud was identified when he moved the money into the account of a
shell corporation in the U.S. in 2011. Source: http://alaska-native-news.com/state_news/9312-anchorage-plastic-surgeon-indicted-by-anchorage-grand-jury-on-wire-fraud-charges.html
Information Technology Sector
32. September
24, IDG News Service – (International) Twitter fixes Tweet button issue that
downloaded a torrent file. An issue that caused the share content to
Twitter buttons on some Web sites September 23 to instead download an unknown
torrent file was fixed by Twitter September 24. Twitter stated that the file
was not found to be malicious. Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242607/Twitter_fixes_Tweet_button_issue_that_downloaded_a_torrent_file
33. September
23, Softpedia – (International) BLYPT backdoor malware targets U.S. users via
Java exploit. Trend Micro researchers identified a new family of backdoor
malware dubbed BLYPT targeting regular Internet users in the U.S. via drive-by
downloads and hijacked Web sites. The malware utilizes a Java vulnerability
that was patched in March. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/BLYPT-Backdoor-Malware-Targets-US-Users-via-Java-Exploit-385378.shtml
34. September
23, IDG News Service – (International) Apache Struts security update disables
vulnerable feature. The Apache Software Foundation released a new version
of the Apache Struts development framework September 20 that addresses two
security vulnerabilities. Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049242/apache-struts-security-update-disables-vulnerable-feature.html
35. September
23, IDG News Service – (International) Gmail hit by message delivery delays, close
to 50 percent of users affected. An undisclosed issue caused some users of
Google’s Gmail service to experience email delivery delays for up to almost 9
hours September 23. The disruption also affected Google Docs and Presentation
applications for a shorter amount of time. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/092313-gmail-hit-by-message-delivery-274100.html
Communications Sector
36.
September 23, Big Island Now –
(Hawaii) Repairs to damaged Hawaiian Telcom line complete. Hawaiian
Telcom reported a September 22 fiber-optic line break in a remote area which
affected cellular and regular telephone services throughout the Big Island was
repaired September 23. Source: http://bigislandnow.com/2013/09/23/hawtel-outage-hits-south-and-west-areas-of-big-island/
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