Complete DHS Report for
May 22, 2015
While dated May 22, 2015 this report was not published until Tuesday, May 26, 2015 by the DHS!
Daily Report
Top Stories
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Transocean Ltd.,
reached a settlement May 20 with the Plaintiffs Steering Committee for nearly
$211.8 million involving 2 classes of businesses and individuals following the
April 2010 drilling rig accident that killed 11 workers and released oil into
the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. – Associated Press
1. May 20, Associated Press – (National) A series of settlements
in 2010 Gulf oil spill. Transocean Ltd., the owner of the Deepwater Horizon
drilling rig, reached a settlement May 20 with the Plaintiffs Steering
Committee for nearly $211.8 million involving 2 classes of businesses and
individuals following the April 2010 drilling rig accident that killed 11
workers and released oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. BP, which leased
the rig from Transocean, reached separate settlements with Transocean and the
Halliburton Company. Source: http://news.yahoo.com/211m-settlement-reached-transocean-2010-oil-spill-215129824--finance.html
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ConAgra Foods agreed May 20 to pay $11.2 million to
settle a 2007 Federal charge after traces of Salmonella were found in Peter Pan
peanut butter produced at the company’s Sylvester,
Georgia plant, resulting in at least 625 illnesses. – Associated Press
7. May 20,
Associated Press – (Georgia) ConAgra to pay $11.2 million to settle charge - 4
- over tainted peanut butter. Omaha-based ConAgra Foods agreed May 20 to
pay $11.2 million to settle a 2007 Federal charge after traces of Salmonella
were found in Peter Pan peanut butter produced at the company’s Sylvester,
Georgia plant, resulting in
at least 625 illnesses across 47 States. Company officials reported that
moisture from a leaky roof and a malfunctioning sprinkler system allowed
Salmonella bacteria to grow on raw peanuts. Source: http://www.omaha.com/money/conagra-to-pay-million-to-settle-charge-over-tainted-peanut/article_c48f928c-ff0b-11e4-a067-4f113d778f28.html
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Miami-Dade police
arrested 5 individuals May 20 for their alleged involvement in a pharmaceutical
drug crime ring that netted approximately $6.5 million. – WPLG 10 Miami
13. May 20, WPLG 10 Miami – (Florida) 5 arrests in fight
against widespread pharmaceutical fraud in Miami-Dade. Miami-Dade police
arrested 5 individuals May 20 for their alleged involvement in a pharmaceutical
drug crime ring that netted approximately $6.5 million, and involved the group
purchasing drugs from patients and reselling them to manufacturers and
pharmacies. Source: http://www.local10.com/news/3-arrests-in-widespread-pharmaceutical-fraud-in-miamidade/33125676
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CareFirst
BlueCross BlueShield announced May 20 that 1.1 million clients in Maryland,
Virginia, and Washington, D.C., had their personal information accessed in a
June 2014 cyberattack on the health insurer’s Web site. – Washington Post
14. May 20, Washington Post – (Maryland; Virginia; Washington, D.C.)
Cyberattack on CareFirst exposes data
on 1.1 million customers in D.C., Md. and Va. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
announced May 20 that 1.1 million current and former clients in Maryland,
Virginia, and Washington, D.C., had their names, birth dates, email addresses,
and subscriber identification numbers accessed in a June 2014 cyberattack on
the health insurer’s Web site. Officials are investigating the nature and scope
of the breach. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/05/20/cyberattack-on-carefirst-exposes-data-on-1-1-million-customers-in-d-c-md-and-va/
Financial Services Sector
3. May 20,
Miami Herald – (Florida) 31 arrested in organized insurance fraud
scheme. Miami-Dade officials announced the arrest of 31 people May 20,
involved in an alleged insurance fraud scheme that bilked insurance companies
in Florida out of more than $7 million by intentionally setting fires and
causing floods in homes across the State. Investigators reported that the
individuals involved managed to stage 20 fires and 5 floods between 2011 and
2013 after being introduced to the homeowners through recruiters. Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article21530616.html
For additional stories, see item 21 below
in the Information Technology Sector and item 26 below
from the Commercial Facilities Sector
26. May
20, KCBS 2 Los Angeles – (California) 2 store owners charged in
$1.3M cell phone insurance fraud scheme. The district attorney’s office in
Los Angeles announced May 20 that 2 cell phone store owners in the county were
charged for allegedly billing more than $1.3 million from an insurance company
after filing false insurance claims for cell phones that were reported as
stolen, lost, or damaged. The pair sold the replacement cell phones provided by
the insurance company for a profit. Source: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/05/20/2-store-owners-charged-in-1-3m-cell-phone-insurance-fraud-scheme/
Information Technology Sector
20. May 21,
Securityweek – (International) Hundreds of cloud services potentially
vulnerable to Logjam attacks: Skyhigh. Skyhigh’s Service Intelligence Team
found that 575 cloud services were potentially vulnerable to attacks following
the discovery of the transport layer security (TLS) vulnerability dubbed Logjam
which affects a number of cloud services. The vulnerability is caused as a
result of the way the Diffie-Hellman (DHE) key exchange is deployed, and can be
exploited by a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacker to down grade TLS connections
in order to gain access to the data. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/hundreds-cloud-services-potentially-vulnerable-logjam-attacks-skyhigh
21. May 20,
Softpedia – (International) Amount of new malware strains more than
doubled in second half of 2014. G Data researchers found that in the second
half of 2014, hackers increased their malware threats as the amount of new
strains grew to 125 percent, with the most prevalent being adware variants,
which accounted for 31.4 percent of all threats. Researchers also determined
that Vawtrak was the predominant banking trojan and focused on targets in the
U.S., U.K., and Canada, in addition to new targets in France and Russia.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amount-of-New-Malware-Strains-More-than-Doubled-in-Second-Half-of-2014-481773.shtml
22. May 20, SC
Magazine – (International) DDoS attacks increase and methods changed in
Q1 2015, report says. Akamai released its Q1 2015 State of the Internet
Report, which found that hackers are using lower bandwidth distributed denial
of service (DDoS) attacks that occur more frequently and last longer, and that
Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) attacks accounted for 20 percent of
attack vectors. The report also found that the gaming industry was the most
targeted industry, accounting for 35 percent of all attacks, and that more than
50 percent of all DDoS attacks targeted China, Germany, and the U.S. Source: http://www.scmagazine.com/q1-report-shows-uptick-in-low-bandwidth-ddos-attacks/article/415876/
23. May 20,
Securityweek – (International) Apples fixes security bugs with first update
for Watch OS. Apple released update 1.0.1 patching 13 vulnerabilities for
its Watch operating system (OS), the iOS-based operating system that runs on
the Apple Watch, addressing certain components including, the Secure Transport,
kernel, Foundation framework, FontParser, IOHIDFamily, and IOAcceleratorFamily.
The update also addresses the factoring RSA export key (FREAK) vulnerability,
which allows a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacker to access encrypted data.
Source: http://www.securityweek.com/apple-fixes-security-bugs-first-update-watch-os
Communications Sector
24. May 20, Lewis County
Chronicle – (Washington) CenturyLink outage affecting almost
1,200 customers in Centralia. Phone service for approximately 1,172
CenturyLink business and residential customers in Centralia, Washington,
remained down May 20 after a construction crew inadvertently cut fiber optic
lines May 19. Crews worked to repair the damaged line and did not provide an
estimate on the restoration of service. Source: http://www.chronline.com/crime/article_8931401c-ff12-11e4-9364-ef93214054fc.html
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