Complete DHS Report for December 30, 2014
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· A rock
slide December 27 in Minturn, Colorado, blocked Highway 24 with large boulders
and prompted the road to close indefinitely while crews cleared the debris and
inspected the hillside for stability. – KCNC 4 Denver
9. December 28, KCNC 4 Denver – (Colorado) Rock slide forces
closure of Highway 24 near Minturn. A rock slide December 27 in Minturn
blocked Highway 24 with large boulders and prompted the road to close indefinitely
while crews cleared the debris and inspected the hillside for stability.
Source: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/12/28/rock-slide-forces-closure-of-highway-24-near-minturn/
· The
Alaska Department of Epidemiology reported December 24 that at least 25
individuals in Bristol Bay communities were sickened in an ongoing botulism
outbreak linked to a batch of seal oil produced in the village of Twin Hills
that tested positive for the botulinum toxin. – KDLG 670 AM/89.9 FM
Dillingham
16. December 24, KDLG 670
AM/89.9 FM Dillingham –
(Alaska) Botulism outbreak, batch of Twin Hills seal oil to blame. The
Alaska Department of Epidemiology reported December 24 that at least 25
individuals in Bristol Bay communities were sickened in an ongoing botulism
outbreak linked to a batch of seal oil produced in the village of Twin Hills
that tested positive at the highest measurable level for botulinum toxin.
Source: http://kdlg.org/post/botulism-outbreak-batch-twin-hills-seal-oil-blame
· A
boil water advisory was issued December 25 through December 27 for at least
27,500 Casselberry, Florida residents following a water treatment system
malfunction. – WESH 2 Daytona Beach
19. December 25, WESH 2 Daytona
Beach – (Florida) Boil
water notice affects at least 27,500 Casselberry residents. A boil water
advisory was issued December 25 for at least 27,500 Casselberry, Florida
residents following a water treatment system malfunction that prevented the
city from maintaining the minimum required chlorine residual. The boil water
advisory was expected to be in effect through December 27. Source: http://www.wesh.com/news/boil-water-notice-affects-at-least-27500-casselberry-residents/30397646
· A
fire at the Wedgwood Senior Apartments complex in Castle Hills, Texas, December
28 killed 5 residents, injured more than a dozen others, and prompted the
evacuation of 350 individuals. – Associated Press
28. December 29, Associated Press – (Texas) 17
in hospital after deadly Texas high-rise fire. A fire at the Wedgwood
Senior Apartments complex in Castle Hills, Texas, December 28 killed 5
residents, injured more than a dozen others, and prompted the evacuation of 350
individuals. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blaze and the
whereabouts of about 80 residents that remained unaccounted for December 29.
Source: www.khou.com/story/news/local/texas/2014/12/28/fire-breaks-out-at-senior-apartments-in-san-antonio/20966821/wed
Financial Services Sector
5. December
29, Wall Street Journal – (New Jersey) Pershing LLC fined $3
million for reserve level, supervisory failures. The Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority fined Pershing LLC, a unit of the Bank of New York Mellon
Corp., $3 million December 29 for failing to maintain certain reserve levels
and for supervisory failures after regulators discovered the company violated
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s customer protection rule. The company
had reserve deficiencies ranging from $4 million to $220 million from November 2010
to August 2011 and put securities to risk by failing to maintain physical
possession of some fully paid and margin securities. Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/pershing-llc-fined-3-million-for-reserve-level-supervisory-failures-1419866070
6. December
26, Bloomberg News; Chicago Tribune – (International) Credit
Suisse must face $10 billion N.Y. mortgage-fraud lawsuit. Zurich-based
Credit Suisse Group was ordered by a New York State Supreme Court justice to
face a $10 billion lawsuit initiated by the State’s attorney general December
24 accusing the bank of fraud in the sales of mortgage-backed securities before
the 2008 financial crisis. Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-credit-suisse26-20141226-story.html
Information Technology Sector
24. December
29, V3.co.uk – (International) Twitter trouble kicks Android users out of
the action. Twitter resolved a software issue which prevented Android users
from posting on the site for 3 hours December 28. Source: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2388188/twitter-trouble-kicks-android-users-out-of-the-action
25. December
28, IDG News Service – (International) Sony: PlayStation Network is back online now,
really. Sony reported that its PlayStation Network was fully restored
December 28 following a December 25 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
that knocked the network offline. The Lizard Squad hacker group allegedly
claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack which also took down Microsoft’s
Xbox Live through December 26, and the group claimed that the Tor network was
its next target for a zero-day attack. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2863814/sony-playstation-network-is-back-online-now-really.html
26. December
27, Softpedia – (International) Exploit for Android same origin policy flaw
is leveraged against Facebook users. Researchers with Trend Micro,
Facebook, and BlackBerry are working to detect and resolve an attack targeting
Facebook users using a campaign relying on a Blackberry app to steal access
tokens which uses the same origin policy (SOP) exploit flaw in the Web browser
of the Android OS lower than 4.4. The attackers rely on the vulnerability to
serve a malicious JavaScript file to victims which is stored in a cloud storage
account. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Exploit-for-Android-Same-Origin-Policy-Is-Leveraged-Against-Facebook-Users-468351.shtml
27. December
27, Softpedia – (International) Internet Systems Consortium website has been
compromised to serve malware. The Web site of Internet Systems Consortium,
which maintains BIND and relies on WordPress, was taken offline after the site
was hacked with a malicious code. Administrators urged users to check their
computers while they investigated the apparent issue with the content
management system (CMS) after visitors were redirected to a malicious location
hosting Angler Exploit Kit (EK). Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Internet-Systems-Consortium-Website-Has-Been-Compromised-to-Serve-Malware-468365.shtml
Communications Sector
Nothing to report