Complete DHS Daily Report for October 21, 2013
Daily Report
Top Stories
• Toyota announced a recall of 803,000 vehicles
due to the potential for an electrical issue that could cause a short circuit
and turn on airbag warning lights or disable the airbags. – Detroit Bureau
3.
October 17, Detroit Bureau –
(National) Toyota recalls 803,000 vehicles over airbag problem. Toyota
announced a recall of 803,000 model year 2012 and 2013 Camry, Avalon, and Venza
vehicles due to the potential for an electrical issue that could cause a short
circuit and turn on airbag warning lights or disable the airbags. Source: http://editorial.autos.msn.com/toyota-recalls-803000-cars-for-airbag-defect
• Police in Finland arrested a man believed to
be part of an international cybercrime ring that has been using over 60,000
compromised servers to commit credit card fraud. – Softpedia See item 4 below in the Banking and Finance Sector
• A federal court issued a judgment fining
HSBC $2.46 billion due to a unit of the company that filed false and misleading
statements and engaged in other practices that inflated its share price. – Reuters
See
item 6 below in the Banking and Finance Sector
• Costco’s El Camino Real store in San
Francisco added an additional 14,093 units of rotisserie chicken products to an
ongoing recall due to potential contamination with a strain of Salmonella. – Meat
& Poultry
14. October
17, Meat & Poultry – (California) Costco expands recall of
rotisserie chicken. Costco’s El Camino Real store in San Francisco added an
additional 14,093 units of Kirkland Farm and Kirkland Signature Foster Farms
rotisserie chicken products to an ongoing recall due to potential contamination
with a strain of Salmonella. Officials are investigating the source of the
contamination. Source: http://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/news_home/Food_Safety/2013/10/Costco_expands_recall_of_rotis.aspx?ID=%7BD3562143-3E43-441C-A2E9-B4D2F8EF37C9%7D
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Banking and Finance Sector
4. October
18, Softpedia – (International) Finnish police arrest man allegedly involved
with international hacker group. Police in Finland arrested a man believed
to be part of a cybercrime ring that has been using over 60,000 compromised
servers to commit credit card fraud. Police found information on 3,000
non-Finish payment cards on the suspect’s computer and the man admitted to
using the information to make purchases. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Finnish-Police-Arrest-Man-Allegedly-Involved-with-International-Hacker-Group-392362.shtml
5. October
18, WPXI 11 Pittsburgh – (Pennsylvania) Feds arrest Romanian
nationals accused of placing skimming devices in 2 Pittsburgh post offices. Authorities
in Pittsburgh arrested two Romanian nationals as they were allegedly retrieving
skimming devices attached to an automated postal machine inside a post office,
with a skimming device also reported in another post office. Source: http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/2-men-accused-using-skimming-devices-stamp-machine/nbQ3w/
6. October
17, Reuters – (National) HSBC is fined $2.46 billion in securities fraud
case. A federal court issued a judgment October 17 fining HSBC $2.46
billion in a class action lawsuit filed against Household International, which
was later bought by HSBC, due to the lender’s leadership making false and
misleading statements and engaging in other practices that inflated the company’s
share price. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/business/hsbc-is-fined-2-46-billion-in-securities-fraud-case.html
7. October
17, Dark Reading – (International) DDoS attack used ‘headless’ browsers in
150-hour siege. Incapsula reported that an unnamed trading platform was
subject to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that employed around
180,000 IP addresses and lasted 150 hours. The attack used a version of the
Phantom IS ‘headless browser’ developer tool to simulate traffic from actual
users and was thus more difficult to mitigate. Source: http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/ddos-attack-used-headless-browsers-in-15/240162777
8. October
17, North Bay Business Journal – (California) FDIC seeks $12
million from former Sonoma Valley Bank executives. The Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation filed a lawsuit against three former officers and
directors of the failed Sonoma Valley Bank and is seeking $12 million from them
for allegedly knowingly acting in violation of State regulations and the bank’s
internal standards. Source: http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/81603/fdic-seeks-12-million-from-former-sonoma-valley-bank-executives/
9. October
17, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Rhode Island – (Rhode
Island) Computer technology firm CEO pleads guilty to bank fraud, money
laundering. The CEO and vice president of General Technologies Corporation,
doing business as CompUtopia, October 15 pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court
in Providence to a bank fraud and money laundering scheme that defrauded
Rockland Trust Company of more than $5 million. Source: http://www.fbi.gov/boston/press-releases/2013/computer-technology-firm-ceo-pleads-guilty-to-bank-fraud-money-laundering
For another story, see
item 19 below:
19. October
17, Associated Press – (Maryland) 4 charged with stealing $750K in merchandise using
patients’ stolen information. Prosecutors charged four women for using the
personal information of nearly 50 patients from medical offices where two of
the women worked to take over credit accounts from department stores and steal
over $750,000 in merchandise. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/4-charged-with-stealing-750k-in-merchandise-using-patients-stolen-information/2013/10/17/81f8efea-3789-11e3-89db-8002ba99b894_story.html
Information Technology Sector
26.
October 18, Threatpost –
(International) VMware patches flaws in ESX, vCenter. VMware issued
several patches for its products, including vCenter and ESX, closing a number
of vulnerabilities that could be used for authentication bypass or denial of
service. Source: http://threatpost.com/vmware-patches-flaws-in-esx-vcenter
27.
October 18, Softpedia –
(International) Video game forum NeoGAF hacked, user passwords reset. Video
game forum NeoGAF reset its users’ passwords after an administrator account was
briefly compromised and could have been used to steal user information. Source:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Video-Game-Forum-NeoGAF-Hacked-User-Passwords-Reset-392448.shtml
For
additional stories, see items 4 and 7 above
in the Banking and Finance Sector
Communications Sector
28. October
18, Yakima Herald – (Washington) Phone service restored after theft of 1,000 feet
of cable. Cellular phone, Internet, and landline services were restored to
CenturyLink customers and 9-1-1- services in several areas near Yakima October
17 following the theft of about 1,000 feet of copper and fiber optic cable
which caused the outage. Source: http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/latestlocalnews/1588352-8/phone-service-down-in-gleed-area-911-also
29. October
17, KGWN 2 Cheyenne – (National) New telemarketing laws aim to protect cell phone
users. New Federal Communications Commission rules will limit
telemarketers’ ability to call and text cell phones using automatic dialing
systems and require written consent from consumers before contacting them using
automatic systems. Source: http://kwgn.com/2013/10/17/new-telemarketing-laws-aim-to-protect-cell-phone-users/