Complete DHS Report for
August 21, 2015
Daily Report
Top Stories
· Six Freedom Industries, Inc., officials
pleaded guilty August 19 to Federal Clean Water Act and other violations in
connection to a chemical spill that contaminated drinking water for 300,000
West Virginia residents. – WVVA 6 Bluefield; Associated Press
2. August 19,
WVVA 6 Bluefield; Associated Press – (West Virginia) Company
president enters plea in WV chemical spill. A U.S Attorney announced August
19 that 6 Freedom Industries, Inc., officials charged in a chemical spill which
contaminated drinking water for 300,000 people in West Virginia pleaded guilty
to violating the Federal Clean Water Act, negligently discharging refuse matter
in violation of the Federal Refuse Act, as well as failing to have a pollution
prevention plan. Freedom and four other Freedom officials previously pleaded
guilty to environmental crimes in March. Source: http://www.wvva.com/story/29833113/2015/08/19/company-president-enters-plea-in-wv-chemical-spill
· Officials reported that lanes of
Interstate 75 in Michigan will be closed through August 24 after a semi-truck
carrying 8,000 gallons of gasoline overturned and burst into flames on the
roadway. – WWJ 62 Detroit
5. August 20,
WWJ 62 Detroit – (Michigan) I-75 to be closed ‘for days’ after tanker carrying
8,000 gallons of gasoline crashes, catches fire. A semi-truck carrying
8,000 gallons of gasoline traveling on southbound on Interstate 75 in Lincoln
Park, Michigan, struck the median wall and flipped over into northbound lanes,
bursting into flames August 20. The driver was transported to an area hospital
in critical condition and officials stated that southbound lanes of the
interstate at Shaefer and northbound lanes at the Southfield Freeway will
remain closed through at least August 24.
· One worker was killed and an evacuation
order near the Liquid Transfer Terminals plant in Bainbridge, Georgia, was
lifted following an August 19 chemical explosion in a 1 million gallon tank of
sodium hydrosulfide. – WALB 10 Albany
10. August 20,
WALB 10 Albany – (Georgia) Chemical fire is out as crews make sure the area is
safe. One worker was killed and evacuation orders for people within a
half-mile radius of the Liquid Transfer Terminals plant in Bainbridge were
lifted after several hours following an August 19 chemical explosion that
occurred in a 1 million gallon tank of sodium hydrosulfide while 2 workers were
installing a gauge at the facility. Source: http://www.walb.com/story/29833084/one-dead-in-chemical-explosion-near-bainbridge
· Three firefighters were killed August
19 as crews across Washington, California, and Oregon battled several wildfires
that have destroyed over 340,000 acres of forest and hundreds of structures. – CNN
21. August 19,
CNN – (Washington; California; Oregon) Three firefighters killed in
battle against Washington wildfire. Three firefighters were killed battling
a wildfire that has burned more than 235,000 acres, destroyed over 110 homes
and structures, and continues to threaten 11 counties in Washington August 19.
Fire crews in California and Oregon worked to contain several wildfires that
have burned over 115,000 acres, forced the evacuations of thousands of
residents, and damaged or destroyed more than 100 homes and other structures. Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/us/wildfires-western-states/
Financial Services Sector
4. August 19,
Reuters – (National) Citigroup to pay $15 mln to settle U.S. compliance
charges. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced August 19
that a unit of Citigroup Inc., will pay $15 million to resolve civil charges
that the company allegedly failed to review thousands of trades its trading
desk carried out over a 10-year period, and that Citigroup improperly routed
467,0000 transactions for advisory clients to an affiliated market-making firm.Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/19/sec-citigroup-compliance-idUSL1N10U15O20150819
Information Technology Sector
26. August 20,
Securityweek – (International) iOS sandbox flaw exposes companies using MDM
solutions. Security experts from Appthority reported that organizations
using mobile device management solutions (MDM) and enterprise mobility
management (EMM) solutions are vulnerable to third-party app sandbox issue
dubbed “Quicksand” in Apple’s iOS, in which an attacker could develop a
malicious application that reads the configuration settings of managed
applications.Source: http://www.securityweek.com/attackers-can-exploit-ios-flaw-target-companies-using-mdm
27. August 20,
Securityweek – (International) Drupal security updates patch five
vulnerabilities. The developers of the Drupal open source content
management system (CMS) released security updates addressing five cross-site
scripting (XSS), Structured Query Language (SQL) injection, cross-site request
forgery (CSRF), and information disclosure vulnerabilities. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/drupal-security-updates-patch-five-vulnerabilities
28. August 20,
The Register – (International) Holes found in Pocket Firefox add-on. Mozilla
released a fix August 17 for server-side vulnerabilities in the Pocket Firefox Web browser add-on in
which an attacker could compromise the Pocket application to gain access to
user data, and could use the add-on to populate links to malicious redirects. Source:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/20/holes_found_in_pocket/
Communications Sector
See item 26 above in the Information Technology
Sector