Complete DHS Report for December 28, 2016
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• Texas Best Proteins (Farm to Market Foods) issued a recall
December 24 for approximately 25,332 pounds of its Dirty Rice products due to
misbranding and undeclared peanuts. – U.S. Department of Agriculture
15. December 25, U.S.
Department of Agriculture – (Texas) Texas Best Proteins recalls Cajun
Style Dirty Rice containing chicken products and Turkey Cajun Dinner Kits
containing Dirty Rice due to misbranding and undeclared allergens. Texas
Best Proteins (Farm to Market Foods) issued a recall December 24 for
approximately 25,332 pounds of its Cajun Style Dirty Rice containing chicken
products and its Turkey Cajun Dinner Kits containing Dirty Rice products due to
misbranding and undeclared peanuts after the company was notified by its
supplier that the Worcestershire sauce used in the rice product was recalled as
the sauce may contain peanut, which is not listed on the product label. There
have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions and the products were
shipped to retail outlets in Texas. Source: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2016/recall-122-2016-release
• Officials reported that a malfunction at the Lake Creek Lift
Station in Austin, Texas, caused around 50,000 gallons of wastewater to
overflow December 24. – Austin American-Statesman
18. December 24, Austin
American-Statesman – (Texas) About 50,000 gallons of wastewater overflow
in northwest Austin. Austin Water Utility officials reported that a
malfunction at the Lake Creek Lift Station in Austin, Texas, caused around
50,000 gallons of wastewater to overflow December 24. Officials stated that
none of the spillage went into the creek and the overflow did not impact the
city’s drinking water supply. Source: http://www.statesman.com/news/local/about-000-gallons-wastewater-overflow-northwest-austin/bzVY6a11dhICchrfk96hON/
• Officials reached a roughly $40 million settlement December 23
to resolve claims against around 100 potentially responsible parties for the
cleanup of the Peterson/Puritan, Inc. Superfund Site in Cumberland and Lincoln,
Rhode Island. – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
20. December 23, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency – (Rhode Island) Settlement reached at
the Peterson/Puritan, Inc. Superfund Site in Cumberland and Lincoln, R.I. The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice, and Rhode
Island Department of Environmental Protection reached a more than $40 million
settlement December 23 to resolve Federal and State liability claims against
around 100 potentially responsible parties for the cleanup of Operable Unit Two
of the Peterson/Puritan, Inc. Superfund Site in Cumberland and Lincoln, Rhode
Island, following decades of hazardous waste dumping at the site that polluted
the neighboring Blackstone River, groundwater, and soils. The settlement calls
for the excavation and consolidation of contaminated soils and sediments,
construction of a multi-layered impermeable cap, and long term monitoring,
among other measures. Source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/settlement-reached-petersonpuritan-inc-superfund-site-cumberland-and-lincoln-ri
• About 500 Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Inc. customers in
Arroyo Hondo, Arroyo Seco, and Questa, New Mexico, were without Internet
service for roughly 36 hours December 20 – December 22 due to a hardware
failure. – Taos News See item 24
below in the Communications Sector
Financial Services Sector
7. December 23,
SecurityWeek – (International) Phishers adopt malware distribution-like
tactics. Proofpoint security researchers reported that a recently spotted
phishing campaign designed to steal credit card information was employing a
technique previously associated with malware distribution, which involves the
distribution of a malicious Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) attachment that is
XOR-encoded inside a password protected .zip archive to make detection more
difficult and to convince victims that the email is legitimate. The spam emails
also leveraged stolen branding and social engineering to trick users into
giving away their credit card information by telling the spam recipients that
they need to update their credit card security information in order to receive
a new card equipped with a chip. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/phishers-adopt-malware-distribution-tactics
8. December 23, Cottage
Grove Herald-Independent – (Wisconsin) Card skimmers strike Monona,
Cottage Grove: Information gathered after thieves use readers, cameras at bank,
credit union ATMs. Authorities in Monona, Wisconsin, are searching December
23 for 4 Romanian nationals suspected of installing card readers and cameras at
outside ATMs at Monona State Bank, Old National Bank, and University of
Wisconsin Credit Union locations in Monona, as well as at a Cottage Grove
branch of Monona State Bank between November and December 2016. Source: http://www.hngnews.com/monona_cottage_grove/article_e3a895c0-c925-11e6-b531-27fa05478e12.html
Information Technology Sector
23. December 27,
SecurityWeek – (International) Critical RCE flaw patched in PHPMailer. The
developers of PHPMailer released version 5.2.18 of the product to resolve a
critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw after a security researcher from
Legal Hackers found the flaw can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated
attacker for arbitrary code execution in the context of the Web server user in
order to compromise a targeted Web application. The researcher found the
vulnerability can be exploited through Website components including feedback
forms, registration forms, and password reset features that use a version of
PHPMailer for sending emails that is impacted by the security hole. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/critical-rce-flaw-patched-phpmailer
For another story, see item 7
above in the Financial
Services Sector
Communications Sector
24. December 25, Taos
News – (New Mexico) Kit Carson Internet restored after multi-day outage.
About 500 Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Inc. customers in parts of
Arroyo Hondo, Arroyo Seco, and Questa, New Mexico, were without Internet
service for roughly 36 hours December 20 – December 22 due to a hardware
failure at 2 of the company’s substations. The exact cause of the outage
remains under investigation.
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