Monday, October 21, 2013



Complete DHS Daily Report for October 21, 2013

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 • 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

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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/