Complete DHS Report for
October 16, 2015
Daily Report
Top Stories
• Officials approved
October 14 NST Express LLC’s $60 to $80 million bid to build a 12-inch diameter
crude oil pipeline in McKenzie County by late 2016. – Bismarck Tribune
1. October
15, Bismarck Tribune – (North Dakota) Public Service Commission approves new 23-mile
Bakken oil pipeline. The North Dakota Public Service Commission approved
October 14 NST Express LLC’s $60 – $80 million bid to build a 12-inch diameter
crude oil pipeline in McKenzie County by late 2016. The 23-mile pipeline would
transport oil from NST Express Alexander Facility to its NST Transload East
Fairview Facility with a maximum capacity of 100,000 barrels per day. Source: http://www.inforum.com/news/3861366-public-service-commission-approves-new-23-mile-bakken-oil-pipeline
• The governor of
California signed legislation October 15 banning products containing tiny
exfoliating microbeads after it was determined that the beads pass through
water filtration systems without disintegrating. – Fox News; Associated
Press
12. October
15, Fox News; Associated Press – (California) California bans
‘microbeads’ in victory for environmentalists. The governor of California
signed legislation October 15 banning products containing tiny exfoliating
microbeads, which will be imposed in 2020, after it was determined that the
beads pass through water filtration systems without disintegrating. The plastic
beads were found in the San Francisco bay, as well as in open oceans, rivers,
and the Great Lakes. Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/15/california-bans-microbeads-in-victory-for-environmentalists/
• Texas Governor
declared a state of emergency October 15 due to the Smithville Fire that has
burned over 4,200 acres, destroyed 9 structures, and forced the evacuation of
about 200 homes. – San Antonio Express-News
14. October
15, San Antonio Express-News – (Texas) Texas governor
declares state of disaster in Bastrop County for fire. Texas Governor
declared a state of emergency October 15 due to the Smithville Fire that has
burned over 4,200 acres in Bastrop County, Texas, destroyed 9 structures, and
forced the evacuation of about 200 homes. Crews reached 15 percent containment
of the fire. Source: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Bastrop-County-crews-battle-fire-that-forces-6569034.php
• The U.S. Customs
and Border Protection experienced a 90-minute outage October 14 with its
processing systems at airports of entry prompting U.S. international travelers
to be processed with substitute procedures. – WFOR 4 Miami
15. October
14, WFOR 4 Miami – (National) Computer glitch temporarily knocks out U.S.
Customs processing system. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced
that it experienced a 90-minute outage October 14 with its processing systems
at airports of entry in the U.S. International travelers were processed with
substitute procedures while the technical disruption was addressed. Source: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/10/14/computer-glitch-temporarily-knocks-out-u-s-customs-processing-system/
Financial Services Sector
Nothing
to report
Information Technology Sector
16. October
15, Help Net Security – (International) Attackers can use Siri,
Google Now to secretly take over smartphones. Security researchers from the
French Network and Information Security Agency discovered that attackers could
use a laptop running GNU Radio, an amplifier, a universal software radio
peripheral (USRP) software-defined radio, and antenna to take over smartphones
with headphones plugged in via the Google Now and Siri personal assistants. The
attack utilizes the device’s headphone cord as an antenna, and can enable
hackers to force phones to send emails and messages, visit malicious sites, or
become an eavesdropping device. Source: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=18984
17. October
15, Securityweek – (International) Serious vulnerabilities patched in SAP
products. SAP released 29 patches and support packages addressing 1
critical and 15 high priority issues, including missing authorization checks,
information disclosure vulnerabilities, cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws,
buffer overflows, and a structured query language (SQL) injection
vulnerability, as well as a severe remote command execution vulnerability
affecting the SAP HANA database management system. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/serious-vulnerabilities-patched-sap-products
18. October
14, Securityweek – (International) Zero-day flaw in Magento tool exploited in
the wild. Security researchers from Trustwave discovered a vulnerability in
a version of the Magmi mass importer tool for eBay’s Magento platform in which
the tool’s “download_file.php” opens a specified file without conducting checks
to guard against directory traversal attacks, potentially allowing access to
sensitive files. Magento identified and contacted the owners of 1,700
potentially vulnerable Web sites. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/zero-day-flaw-magento-tool-exploited-wild
Communications Sector
See item 16 above in the Information Technology
Sector