Complete DHS Report for April 25, 2014
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• The Mine Safety and Health Administration
announced new rules April 23 requiring miners to wear real-time dust monitors,
expand dust sampling, and institute quicker enforcement against violations. – Louisville
Courier-Journal
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April 23, Louisville Courier-Journal –
(National) MSHA issues new coal dust limits for miners. The Mine Safety
and Health Administration announced new rules April 23 requiring miners to wear
real-time dust monitors, expand dust sampling, close sampling loopholes, and
institute quicker enforcement against violations while increasing medical
surveillance of miners. The rules will help reduce the amount of coal dust
underground miners can be exposed to by enforcing that concentration limits for
breathable coal mine dust be cut by 25 percent to 1.5 milligrams per cubic
liter of air. Source: http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/23/msha-issues-new-coal-dust-limits-miners/8051623/
• An April 23 explosion at the Williams Gas
Plant in Opal, Wyoming, prompted the evacuation of the plant and nearby town as
a precaution while crews shut off gas at the facility and worked to contain the
fire. – KSTU 13 Salt Lake City
5.
April 23, KSTU 13 Salt Lake City –
(Wyoming) Wyoming town evacuated after explosion at gas plant. An April
23 explosion at the Williams Gas Plant in Opal, Wyoming, prompted the
evacuation of the plant and nearby town as a precaution while crews shut off
gas at the facility and worked to contain the fire. Traffic was also diverted
as U.S. 30 was closed in the area. Source: http://fox13now.com/2014/04/23/wyoming-town-evacuated-after-explosion-at-gas-plant/
• A man believed to be the “Rabid Fan Bandit”
was arrested April 21 in Des Moines, Washington, and charged for allegedly
robbing eight banks in the State and instructing and aiding a bank robbery gang
known as the “Buddy Bandits” in eight additional bank robberies. – Tacoma
News Tribune
See
item 12 below in the Financial Services Sector
• A former Kentucky U.S. postal worker was
sentenced and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution after storing at least
44,900 pieces of mail at his deceased mother’s home, as well as at storage
facilities from March 2011 to March 2013. – CNN
14.
April 24, CNN – (Kentucky) Kentucky
postal worker jailed for stashing 44,900 pieces of mail. A former Kentucky
U.S. postal worker was sentenced and ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution
after storing at least 44,900 pieces of mail at his deceased mother’s home, as
well as at storage facilities from March 2011 to March 2013. Inspectors stated
that the former worker’s motive was to pick up his children after school.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/23/justice/postal-worker-jailed-missing-mail/
Financial Services Sector
9. April 24, South Florida Business
Journal – (Florida) SEC accuses jailed
broker of real estate scam. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) charged a currently-imprisoned stock promoter for allegedly using false
and misleading statements to raise $8.7 million from investors through Realty
Acquisitions and Trust between 2004 and 2010. The SEC alleges that the man
failed to register as a stock broker and did not inform investors that he was
barred from acting as a broker after a 2006 settlement. Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/morning-edition/2014/04/sec-accuses-jailed-broker-of-real-estate-scam.html?page=all
10. April 24, Hawaii News Now – (Hawaii) Former credit union CEO and 2 employees
charged in $500K embezzlement case. The former CEO and two others who
worked at the OTS Employees Federal Credit Union were charged by federal
authorities April 23 with allegedly embezzling nearly $500,000 from the credit
union that serves Honolulu city bus system employees. The alleged embezzlement
occurred when the former employees manipulated credit union records in order to
pay their own personal credit card balances and falsified records to hide
unrepaid loans. Source: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25326587/former-credit-union-ceo-and-2-employees-charged-in-500k-embezzlement-case
11. April 23, WTAE 4 Pittsburgh – (National) Prosecutor: ID theft scheme cost US
Treasury $10M. A U.S. Attorney announced the indictments April 23 of five
men accused of running an identity theft and fake tax return scheme that
defrauded the U.S. government of around $10 million. The men are accused of
obtaining stolen driver’s licenses and Social Security cards and using the
information to open bank accounts in several States and filing around 2,400
fraudulent tax returns. Source: http://www.wtae.com/news/details-of-massive-fraud-scheme-released-in-pittsburgh/25616320
12. April 23, Tacoma News Tribune – (Washington) FBI says Rabid Fan Bandit behind 16 bank
robberies in Puget Sound area. A man believed to be the “Rabid Fan Bandit”
was arrested April 21 in Des Moines, Washington, and charged for allegedly
robbing 8 banks in the State and instructing and aiding a bank robbery gang
known as the “Buddy Bandits” in 8 additional bank robberies. Source: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/04/23/3162315/fbi-says-rabid-fan-bandit-behind.html
13. April 23, Los Angeles Times – (California) 2 poker buddies, ex-Nvidia worker cited in
insider trading scheme. A former accounting manager at Santa Clara-based
Nvidia Corporation agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) over providing insider information to another man who relayed
the information to the manager of a hedge fund that used the information to
make $16.5 million in illicit profits. The two others involved in the insider
trading were previously charged by the SEC. Source: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-insider-trading-tip-funneled-through-poker-players-feds-say-20140423,0,4920214.story#axzz2zoQorqr3
For another story, see item 29 below in the Information Technology Sector
Information Technology Sector
29. April
24, Help Net Security – (International) Mobile bad bots running
across most top mobile operators. Distil Networks released a report on
harmful bot traffic and found that harmful bots increased their share of Web
traffic in 2013 from 12.25 percent of traffic to 23.6 percent. The report also
found that the financial services industry had more organizations contributing
a high percentage of harmful bot traffic than other industries, and that mobile
harmful bots are running across nine of the world’s top ten mobile operators,
among other findings. Source: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=16732
30. April
24, The Register – (International) Cisco: Hey, IT depts. You’re
all malware hosts. Cisco released its latest security survey and found that
100 percent of companies in the survey sample show malicious traffic calling to
malware hosts and that the length of time that the activity persists suggests
that network penetrations are ongoing and undetected, among other findings.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/24/cisco_youre_ialli_malware_hosts/
31. April
24, SC Magazine – (International) Major Twitter spam attack
‘traced’ to fellow social media site. We Heart It disabled its sign-in and
sharing via Twitter April 23 after it appeared to be the source of thousands of
spam messages being sent out over Twitter. We Heart It stated that they are
investigating the cause of the spam. Source: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/major-twitter-spam-attack-traced-to-fellow-social-media-site/article/344020/
Communications Sector
See
item 29 above in the Information Technology Sector