Complete DHS Report for November 15, 2016
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Top Stories
• Mitsubishi Motors Corporation issued a recall November 10 for
194,616 of its model years 2007 – 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander and Outlander Sport
crossover vehicles due to separate issues affecting the vehicles’ windshield
wipers. – TheCarConnection.com
1. November 10,
TheCarConnection.com – (National) Mitsubishi Outlander, Outlander Sport
recalled for windshield wiper woes: 195,000 vehicles affected. Mitsubishi
Motors Corporation issued a recall November 10 for 194,616 of its model years
2007 – 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander and Outlander Sport crossover vehicles sold in
the U.S. due to separate issues affecting the vehicles’ windshield wipers, both
of which can lead to corrosion, thereby preventing the windshield wipers from
working properly. Source: http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1107199_mitsubishi-outlander-outlander-sport-recalled-for-windshield-wiper-woes-195000-vehicles-affected
• A co-owner of Houston-based Fiango Home Healthcare Inc. was
convicted November 10 for her role in a $13 million Medicare fraud and money
laundering scheme. – U.S. Department of Justice
15. November 11, U.S.
Department of Justice – (Texas) Jury convicts home health agency owner
in $13 million Medicare fraud conspiracy. A co-owner of Houston-based
Fiango Home Healthcare Inc. was convicted November 10 for her role in a $13
million Medicare fraud and money laundering scheme where she and co-conspirators
submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare for home-health services that were
medically unnecessary or not provided, paid illicit kickbacks to physicians in
exchange for authorizing the home-health services for Medicare beneficiaries,
and used the money Medicare paid for the claims to pay kickbacks to patient
recruiters for referring Medicare beneficiaries for services from February 2006
– June 2015. The group also falsified medical records to show that the Medicare
beneficiaries qualified for and received Fiango’s home-health services.
• About 1,400 firefighters worked November 13 to contain over a
dozen wildfires that have scorched roughly 34,000 acres in the North Carolina
mountains. – WNCN 17 Goldsboro; Associated Press
16. November 14, WNCN 17
Goldsboro; Associated Press – (North Carolina) 1,400 firefighters battle
NC mountain wildfires that now top 33,000 acres. About 1,400 firefighters
worked November 13 to contain over a dozen wildfires that have scorched roughly
34,000 acres in the North Carolina mountains. Officials issued an evacuation
order for part of Chimney Rock in Rutherford County near Lake Lure and
mandatory evacuation orders remain in place for five other counties across the
State.
• Nearly 60 firefighters worked November 14 to contain a 3-alarm
fire at a construction site in the South End neighborhood of Charlotte, North
Carolina, that caused $2 million in damages. – WSOC 9 Charlotte
22. November 14, WSOC 9
Charlotte – (North Carolina) 3-alarm fire at South End townhomes ruled
arson, fire officials say. Nearly 60 firefighters worked November 14 to
contain a 3-alarm fire at a construction site in the South End neighborhood of
Charlotte, North Carolina, that caused $2 million in damages, prompted the
evacuation of nearby apartment buildings, and shut down several area roads. No
injuries were reported and officials are investigating the fire as a case of
arson.
Financial Services Sector
Nothing to report
Information Technology Sector
19. November 11,
SecurityWeek – (National) U.S. authorities reach settlement with Adobe
over 2013 breach. Authorities in 15 States reached a $1 million settlement
with Adobe Systems November 10 after the company reportedly failed to employ
reasonable measures to protect its customers’ personal information and detect malicious
activity within its network, causing a massive data breach in 2013 that
compromised over 150 million records. As part of the settlement, Adobe agreed
to institute new policies and practices to prevent future breaches, including
effectively separating payment card data from public-facing servers, performing
ongoing risk assessments, and providing security training to employees, among
other practices. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/us-authorities-reach-settlement-adobe-over-2013-breach
20. November 11,
SecurityWeek – (International) Low-bandwidth “BlackNurse” DDoS attack
can disrupt firewalls. Researchers from Danish telecom operator TDC warned
that certain distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks based on the Internet
Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Type 3 Code 3 packets, dubbed “BlackNurse” can
be highly effective over low bandwidths and can cause firewalls, including
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and SonicWall, to enter a temporary
denial-of-service (DoS) condition. TDC reported that all the firewalls observed
recovered once the DDoS attacks stopped. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/low-bandwidth-blacknurse-ddos-attacks-can-disrupt-firewalls
21. November 10,
SecurityWeek – (International) High severity DoS flaw patched in OpenSSL.
The OpenSSL Project released OpenSSL 1.1.0c resolving three vulnerabilities
after a Google security researcher discovered a heap-based buffer overflow
associated with Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections using
ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher suites that can lead to a denial-of-service (DoS)
condition, which could result in a crash of OpenSSL. The update also addresses
a moderate severity flaw that can cause applications to crash, and a low
severity issue related to the Broadwell-specific Montgomery multiplication
procedure. Source:
http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-dos-flaw-patched-openssl
Communications Sector
Nothing to report
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