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• The personal information of 150,000 Citi
customers who filed for bankruptcy between 2007 and 2011 was exposed after Citi
failed to properly redact records before they were posted to the Public Access
to Court Records (PACER) System. – Softpedia See item 5
below in the Banking and Finance Sector
8. July 23, Associated Press
– (New York) LaGuardia
crash: Airport reopens after troubled landing. Two runways were closed for
several hours and 10 people were injured at New York’s LaGuardia Airport July
22 after the nose gear of a Southwest Airlines plane from Nashville collapsed
on landing. Source: http://news.msn.com/us/ny-airport-hopes-to-fully-reoopen-after-landing-issue
22. July 22, Associated Press
– (Florida) Fla.
sued for keeping disabled kids in nursing homes. A lawsuit filed by the
U.S. Department of Justice against Florida July 22 accuses the State of
unnecessarily institutionalizing about 200 disabled children in nursing homes
and cutting services that would allow them to receive home care. Six nursing
homes were visited by federal investigators around the State and they found the
children were not being given proper education or care, directly violating the
federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Source: http://news.msn.com/us/fla-sued-for-keeping-disabled-kids-in-nursing-homes
• Firefighters
reached 20 percent containment of a wildfire that burned 20,000 to 25,000 acres
on the Warm Springs Indiana Reservation of central Oregon, while the Stagecoach
Fire near Gilchrist was at 10 percent containment. – Associated Press (See
item 23)
23.
July 23, Associated Press – (Oregon) New
central Oregon wildfire; 120 homes evacuated. Firefighters reached 20
percent containment of a wildfire that burned 20,000 to 25,000 acres on the
Warm Springs Indiana Reservation of central Oregon while the Stagecoach Fire
near Gilchrist prompted the evacuation of about 120 homes as crews reached 10
percent containment July 22. Source: http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/07/23/central-oregon-wildfire-causes-120-home-evacuations/
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Banking and Finance Sector
5. July 22, Softpedia – (National) Citi exposes
details of 150,000 individuals who went into bankruptcy. The personal
information, including Social Security numbers, of 150,000 Citi customers who
filed for bankruptcy between 2007 and 2011 was exposed after Citi failed to
properly redact records before they were posted to the Public Access to Court
Records (PACER) System. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Citi-Exposes-Details-of-150-000-Individuals-Who-Went-into-Bankruptcy-369979.shtml
6. July 22, Seattle Post-Intelligencer –
(Washington) Men arrested in ‘Big Top Bandits’ robberies. Seattle police
arrested two men believed to be the “Big Top Bandits” suspected of five bank
robberies. Source: http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/2013/07/22/big-top-bandits-arrested-for-bank-robbery-spree/
7. July 22, Newark Star-Ledger – (New Jersey) Former
Bristol-Myers exec to forfeit illegal profits from insider trading scheme. A
former executive at Bristol-Myers Squibb was ordered by a federal court in
Newark to forfeit $311,361 in illegal profits made when he engaged in insider
trading ahead of his company’s plans to take over Amylin. Source: http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/07/former_bristol-myers_exec_to_f.html
Information Technology Sector
30. July 23,
Softpedia – (International) Pharmacy spammers use Google Translate to
evade spam filters. Researchers at Symantec discovered a spam campaign that
uses Google Translate links to redirect users to rogue pharmacy Web sites.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Pharmacy-Spammers-Use-Google-Translate-to-Evade-Spam-Filters-370429.shtml
32. July 23,
Help Net Security – (International) U.S. the number one source of web attacks. Imperva
published its Web Application Attack Report, which found that retailers suffer
twice as many SQL injection attacks as other industries, and that the U.S. was
the largest source of Web attacks. Source: https://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=15269
33. July 22,
SC Magazine – (International) Bug bounty hunter details Facebook
vulnerability. A Facebook vulnerability was spotted and reported by a
researcher in June that would expose an account’s email address by entering the
user as a developer. The vulnerability was closed by Facebook and a bounty
issued July 19. Source: http://www.scmagazine.com//bug-bounty-hunter-details-facebook-vulnerability/article/303988/
Communications Sector
34.
July 22, KMA 960 AM Shenandoah/99.1 FM Clarinda –
(Iowa) Fiber cut results in mass outage. Repairs to a cut fiber cable
affecting Mediacom customers in Clarinda and Bedford were delayed as crews
found more damage to the underground fiber. The cable was originally severed by
another telecommunications company attempting to install their own fiber July
22 and officials reported there was no estimated time for restoration of
service. Source: http://kmaland.com/01422_Mediacom_outage_late_afternoon_update_190149.asp
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