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· Supervalu
Inc. reported that payment card data from customers at 180 of its grocery
stores in several States between June 22 and July 17 may have been compromised
after the company experienced a breach of its systems. – Computerworld See item 4 below in the Financial Services Sector
· The FBI
stated that the man that robbed a Chase Bank branch in Northlake, Michigan,
August 15 was a suspect known as the “No Boundaries Bandit” responsible for 10
bank robberies in the Chicago area. – WLS 7 Chicago See item 5 below in the Financial
Services Sector
· Two people
were killed and two were injured in Hoxie, Arkansas, when two Union Pacific
freight trains carrying hazardous materials collided head-on and caught fire
prompting the closure of U.S. Highways 67 and 63 and the evacuation of about
500 nearby residents for nearly 7 hours August 17. – Associated Press
7.
August 17, Associated Press –
(Arkansas) 2 dead, 2 hurt in Arkansas freight train collision. Two
people were killed and two were injured in Hoxie August 17 when two Union
Pacific freight trains carrying hazardous materials collided head-on and caught
fire. Authorities closed a nearby section of U.S. Highways 67 and 63 for
several hours August 17 and evacuated about 500 nearby residents for nearly 7
hours until the fire was extinguished. Source: http://news.msn.com/us/2-dead-2-hurt-in-arkansas-freight-train-collision
· A state of emergency
was declared in New Hampshire August 14 in response to 44 reported overdoses
linked to Smacked, a synthetic marijuana-like product sold in convenience
stores as officials investigate stores and quarantine the product. – Reuters
33.
August 16, Reuters – (New Hampshire) New
Hampshire declares state of emergency over synthetic drug. The governor of
New Hampshire declared a state of emergency August 14 in response to 44
reported overdoses linked to Smacked, a synthetic marijuana-like product sold
as potpourri in convenience stores, authorizing officials to investigate stores
and quarantine the product. Three Manchester-area convenience stores’ business
licenses were revoked after investigators found the product on their shelves.
Source: http://news.msn.com/us/new-hampshire-declares-state-of-emergency-over-synthetic-drug
Financial Services Sector
3. August 18, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission – (Massachusetts) SEC charges
former bank executive and friend with insider trading ahead of acquisition. The
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges August 18 against a
former senior vice president at Eastern Bank in Massachusetts and a friend of
the former senior vice president for allegedly engaging in insider trading
ahead of Eastern Bank’s acquisition of Wainwright Bank & Trust Company,
generating illicit profits of around $300,000. Criminal charges were also
announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts in a
parallel action. Source: http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370542670374
4. August 15, Computerworld – (National) Grocery stores in multiple states hit by
data breach. Supervalu Inc. reported that payment card data from customers
at 180 of its grocery stores in several States between June 22 and July 17 may
have been compromised after the company experienced a breach of its systems.
Supervalu operates or provides IT services to several grocery store brands
including Hornbacher’s Shop ‘n Save, Farm Fresh, Albertsons, ACME, Jewel-Osco,
Cub Foods, and other brands. Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9250402/Grocery_stores_in_multiple_states_hit_by_data_breach
5. August 15, WLS 7 Chicago – (Illinois) ‘No Boundaries Bandit’ robbed Chase Bank in
Northlake, FBI says. The FBI stated that the man that robbed a Chase Bank
branch in Northlake August 15 was a suspect known as the “No Boundaries Bandit”
responsible for a total of 10 bank robberies in the Chicago area. Source: http://abc7chicago.com/news/fbi-no-boundaries-bandit-strikes-again-in-northlake/264677/
For another story, see item 25 below in the Information Technology
Sector
Information Technology Sector
22. August
18, Securityweek – (International) Windows security update
causing system crash. Microsoft removed the download links to a Windows
security update and is investigating after several users reported their systems
crashing upon startup after applying the update. The “blue screen of death”
(BSoD) issue was found to be incorrect handling of the Windows font cache file
in specific circumstances, according to a Sophos researcher. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/windows-security-update-causing-system-crash
23. August
18, Softpedia – (International) New TorrentLocker ransomware uses
CryptoLocker and CryptoWall components. Researchers with iSIGHT Partners
identified a new piece of ransomware known as TorrentLocker that uses elements
of the CryptoLocker and CryptoWall ransomware to encrypt victims’ files and
demand a ransom. The ransomware is spread by spam emails and uses the Rijndael
encryption algorithm. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-TorrentLocker-Ransomware-Uses-CryptoLocker-and-CryptoWall-Components-455390.shtml
24. August
18, Help Net Security – (International) Gyroscopes on Android
devices can be used to eavesdrop on users’ conversations. Researchers
published a paper showing how the gyroscope sensors in Android devices can be
combined with a speech recognition algorithm to eavesdrop on conversations due
to Android gyroscopes using a sampling rate that is within a range of human
voice frequency. The researchers stated that the initial results did not
present a significant eavesdropping threat currently, but that it could become
a vulnerability with further refinements in the speech recognition algorithm.
Source: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17266
25. August
17, Securityweek – (International) Average peak size of DDoS
attacks spiked in Q2: Verisign. Verisign released its second quarter (Q2)
2014 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack report, which found that the
size of DDoS attacks increased by 216 percent compared to the first quarter of
the year and that 65 percent of attacks exceeded 1 Gbps, among other findings.
The report stated that the entertainment and media industry was the most
attacked during Q2, followed by IT services. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/average-peak-size-ddos-attacks-spiked-q2-verisign
Communications Sector
26.
August 17, Martinez Gazette –
(California) County offices, law enforcement experiences non-critical phone,
Internet outage. Phone and Internet services were down for many AT&T
customers in Martinez, California, August 12 for almost 24 hours due to a
damaged cable and affected the County Sheriff’s Office, schools, sanitary
districts, and California Highway Patrol offices. 9-1-1 emergency lines were
not affected. Source: http://martinezgazette.com/archives/16875
27.
August 15, WIBW 13 Topeka – (Kansas) Hackers
crash Clay Co. phones during Relay for Life fundraiser. Voice over IP
(VoIP) communication services were disrupted for about 2 hours for Eagle
Communications customers in the Clay Center, Kansas area August 15 when hackers
caused a phone outage by making hundreds of millions of calls into the network
and making the system unusable Source: http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Hackers-Behind-Phone-Outage-In-Clay-County-271463051.html
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