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• Several flights to and from Denver
International Airport in Colorado were diverted, delayed, or canceled May 21
due to a tornado warning and a thunderstorm that dropped hail, damaging six
jets in Frontier Airlines’ Airbus fleet. – KMGH 7 Denver
9.
May 22, KMGH 7 Denver – (Colorado) Tornado
warning disrupts DIA: Frontier jets damaged by hail, flights diverted and
canceled by storm. Dozens of flights to and from the Denver International
Airport in Colorado were diverted, delayed, or canceled May 21 due to a tornado
warning and a large thunderstorm that dropped hail, damaging six jets in
Frontier Airlines’ Airbus fleet. Source: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/denver/no-flights-moving-at-dia-during-storm
• Officials advised nearly 5,000 patrons who
ate at a Red Robin restaurant in Springfield, Missouri, between May 8 and 16 to
obtain a vaccination for hepatitis A after an employee was diagnosed with the
virus. – KOZL 27 Springfield; KOLR 10 Springfield (See item 13)
13.
May 22, KOZL 27 Springfield; KOLR 10 Springfield –
(Missouri) Health Department: 5,000 people may be affected from hepatitis A
at Red Robin. Health officials advised nearly 5,000 patrons who ate at a
Red Robin restaurant in Springfield, Missouri, between May 8 and 16 to obtain a
vaccination for hepatitis A due to a report that an employee at the restaurant
was diagnosed with the virus. The employee cannot return to work until granted
medical clearance and has not been inside the restaurant since May 16. Source: http://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/d/story/health-department-5000-people-may-be-affected-from/32095/_jgAfk31R0GKATRf4ExUAQ
• Two former executives of an Iowa-based
company were charged May 21 with bribing a public official and selling shell
eggs tainted with the strain of Salmonella connected to a 2010 outbreak that
sickened at least 1,900 people and prompted the recall of 550 million eggs. – Associated
Press
14.
May 21, Associated Press – (Iowa) Iowa
egg company, 2 execs charged in 2010 outbreak. Quality Egg LLC and two
former executives of the Iowa-based company were charged May 21 with selling
shell eggs tainted with the strain of Salmonella connected to a 2010 outbreak
that sickened at least 1,900 people and prompted the recall of 550 million
eggs. The men were also charged with bribing a public official in an alleged
2010 payment meant to influence U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors to
approve shell eggs that failed to meet federal standards. Source: http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2014/05/21/iowa-egg-company-2-execs-charged-in-2010-salmonells-outbreak/9373565/
• Crews worked towards containing a wildfire
May 22 that burned about 4,500 acres in a canyon between Sedona and Flagstaff,
Arizona, while officials warned roughly 3,200 residents to be ready to evacuate
if the fire advances. – Associated Press
20.
May 22, Associated Press – (Arizona) Many
flee Arizona towns as wildfire grows in scenic canyon popular with hikers,
campers. Fire crews continued work towards containing a wildfire May 22
that burned about 4,500 acres in a canyon between Sedona and Flagstaff.
Officials warned roughly 3,200 residents to be ready to evacuate if the fire
advances while more than 100 businesses and homes in a 2-mile stretch near the
Slide Rock State Park were already evacuated. Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/22/many-flee-arizona-towns-as-wildfire-grows-in-scenic-canyon-popular-with-hikers/
Financial Services Sector
5. May 22, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission – (New York) SEC charges vitamin
company’s former board member and brothers with insider trading. The U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission charged a former director of Long
Island-based NBTY Inc., and four others with using nonpublic information on
NBTY’s sale to The Carlyle Group to engage in insider trading and collect
illicit profits totaling $175,000. The accused agreed to pay more than $500,000
in a settlement to resolve the charges. Source: http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370541879100
6. May 22, ParkLabrea News/Beverly
Press – (California) ‘Purse packing
bandit’ robs Chase. Police believe that a suspect known as the
“Purse-Packing Bandit” was responsible for the robbery of a Chase Bank branch
in the Los Angeles area May 17, the eighth robbery linked to the suspect since
October 2012. Source: http://parklabreanewsbeverlypress.com/news/2014/05/%E2%80%98purse-packing-bandit%E2%80%99-robs-chase/
7. May 21, IDG News Service – (International) Point-of-sale attacks accounted for a
third of data breaches in 2013, report says. Trustwave released a report on
data breaches that the company investigated in 2013, which found that
e-commerce intrusions accounted for 54 percent of investigated data breaches,
while point-of-sale (POS) system intrusions constituted 33 percent of data
breaches, among other findings. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/052114-point-of-sale-attacks-accounted-for-a-281793.html
8. May 21, The Register – (International) PayPal Manager bug left web stores
wide open to cyber-burglars. PayPal closed a vulnerability in its PayPal
Manager that allowed attackers to change merchants’ passwords, hijack accounts,
and order merchandise for free. The vulnerability was closed after a researcher
at Securatary identified and reported it to PayPal, and the company stated that
there was no evidence that customer information had been compromised. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/21/paypal_account_hijack_vuln_patched/
Information Technology Sector
26. May 22, Help Net Security – (International) Sophisticated Google Drive phishing
campaign persists. Researchers at Symantec reported that a persistent
phishing campaign targeting Google users is using a Google Drive phishing page
that appears more legitimate than most due to it being served over SSL from the
Google Drive service itself. Users who fall victim to the phishing page are
also redirected to another malicious page and may be exposed to malware
infection. Source: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=16908
27. May 22, Softpedia – (International) Hackers bypass iOS 7/iCloud activation
lock, free thousands of iPhones (some potentially stolen). Two researchers
created a service which can unlock devices locked by Apple’s iCloud Activation
Lock system, allowing users to return locked devices to service. The same
service could be used by criminals to unlock stolen Apple devices however, and
the researchers contacted Apple to inform them of the flaw that allows the
unlocking. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Bypass-iOS-7-Activation-Lock-Free-Thousands-of-iPhones-443323.shtml
28. May 21, IDG News Service – (International) New Internet Explorer zero-day details
released after Microsoft fails to patch. Details of an unpatched zero-day
vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 8 browser were released by
HP’s Zero Day Initiative after the researcher that discovered the flaw reported
it 6 months ago. The vulnerability is classified as a use-after-free flaw and
could allow an attacker to gain the same user rights as a user who is brought
to a malicious Web site. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/052214-new-internet-explorer-zero-day-details-281820.html
29. May 21, SC Magazine – (International) A billion shortened URLs go down
following DoS attack. Link-shortening service is.gd was disrupted May 18
due to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that made around a billion links
shortened by the service unavailable. Source: http://www.scmagazine.com/a-billion-shortened-urls-go-down-following-dos-attack/article/347958/
For another story, see item 7 above in the Financial Services Sector
Communications Sector
30.
May 22, Mohave Valley Daily News –
(Arizona) Cable cut knocks out service for 12 hours: Frontier customers lose
phone, Internet. Frontier Communications customers in the Bullhead City
area lost telephone, Internet, and cable services for roughly 12 hours May 21
after a cable owned by another company was damaged. Crews restored service
after repairing the cable. Source: http://www.mohavedailynews.com/news/cable-cut-knocks-out-service-for-hours-frontier-customers-lose/article_c5e6393e-e192-11e3-bc58-001a4bcf887a.html