Friday, September 20, 2013



  
Complete DHS Daily Report for September 20, 2013

Daily Report

Top Stories

 • Crews responded after nearly 5,250 gallons of crude oil spilled from two petroleum tank batteries into the South Platte River south of Milliken, Colorado. – Denver Post

1.            September 19, Denver Post – (Colorado) 5,250 gallons of oil spills into South Platte River. Crews responded after nearly 5,250 gallons of crude oil spilled from two Anadarko Petroleum-owned tank batteries into the South Platte River south of Milliken September 18. Source: http://www.denverpost.com/environment/ci_24126403/5-250-gallons-oil-spills-into-flood-swollen

 • JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay a $920 million penalty to several U.S. and U.K. regulators for failing to implement adequate controls and provide complete information in the $6.2 billion “London Whale” trading loss. – Bloomberg News See item 5 below in the Banking and Finance Sector

 • Authorities responded to a series of bomb threats at Walmart and Walgreens stores nationwide in which the caller demanded that several prepaid cards be loaded with money, though no explosives were found. – Salt Lake City Deseret News

22. September 18, Salt Lake City Deseret News – (National) Pharmacy bomb threats reported across Utah, nation. Authorities responded to a series of bomb threats at Walmart and Walgreens stores nationwide September 18 in which the caller demanded that several prepaid cards be loaded with money and numbers read aloud over the phone. A number of stores were evacuated and searched but no explosive devices were found. Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865586639/Pharmacy-bomb-threats-reported-across-Utah-nation.html

 • A former financial analyst working at the University of Massachusetts Medical School stole nearly $3.4 million from payments intended for the State Medicaid insurance program over 5 years. – Boston Globe

23. September 15, Boston Globe – (Massachusetts) Unsuspected, UMass Medical worker stole millions. A former financial analyst working at the University of Massachusetts Medical School stole nearly $3.4 million from payments intended for the State Medicaid insurance program over 5 years. Authorities discovered the alleged scam after the former worker’s death in December 2012 when they learned he set up a fake corporation to which he had been diverting State funds into, instead of depositing the Medicaid program checks into an account. Source: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/09/14/high-living-umass-medical-school-employee-allegedly-stole-million-state-funds/iMaoiKniSB57YZ8NZPMVGK/story.html

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Banking and Finance Sector

5. September 19, Bloomberg News – (International) JPMorgan agrees to pay $920 million for London Whale loss. JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay a $920 million penalty to several U.S. and U.K. regulators for failing to implement adequate controls and for failing to provide complete information to regulators and its board in the $6.2 billion “London Whale” trading loss and subsequent attempt by some employees to conceal the loss. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-19/jpmorgan-chase-agrees-to-pay-920-million-for-london-whale-loss.html

6. September 19, Help Net Security – (International) New wave of Shylock trojan targets bank customers. Researchers at Zscaler warned of a new campaign using the Shylock (also known as Caphaw) trojan to target financial institutions. The initial infection vector is currently unknown but thought to be an exploit kit targeting Java vulnerabilities. Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2592

7. September 18, WLS 7 Chicago – (Illinois) Beanie Babies creator charged with tax evasion. The founder of TY Inc. was charged with failing to report income he earned in an undisclosed financial account in Switzerland, and planned to plead guilty to tax evasion and pay a civil penalty of $53,552,248 for concealing $3.1 million in foreign income generated from the account. Source: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=9252785

8. September 18, Krebs on Security – (National) Crooks hijack retirement funds via SSA portal. The Social Security Administration (SSA) and financial institutions reported a rise in identity theft cases where criminals register an account on the SSA Web portal in the name of a retiree and then divert the benefits to themselves in the form of prepaid debit cards. Source: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/09/crooks-hijack-retirement-funds-via-ssa-portal/

9. September 18, Associated Press – (International) Ex-bank executive pleads guilty in Olympus fraud. A former bank vice president pleaded guilty to wire fraud for helping Olympus Corp. perpetrate a $1.7 billion accounting fraud scheme while he worked at two international financial institutions. The Taiwanese national admitted to transferring an Olympus bond portfolio to an entity controlled by the company, and to providing false information to Olympus’s auditor in exchange for more than $10 million in compensation. Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bank-executive-pleads-guilty-olympus-fraud-20297373

10. September 18, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – (Indiana) SEC charges Indiana-based company and executives for defrauding investors in renewable fuel production scheme. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Imperial Petroleum of Evansville and several of its suppliers and executives with posing to investors as a legitimate biofuels company while concealing illegal activities that made up the vast majority of its revenues, resulting in losses of around $60 million after the scheme fell apart. Source: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2013/lr22800.htm

Information Technology Sector

29. September 19, Computerworld – (International) Another flawed Office update tells users to buy the suite. Microsoft confirmed that one of the patches in its September 10 Patch Tuesday update is causing problems for users of Office 2010 Starter Edition, changing file associations of documents and in some cases telling users that they must buy a full capabilities version of Microsoft Office. Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242514/Another_flawed_Office_update_tells_users_to_buy_the_suite

30. September 19, Threatpost – (International) Facebook Android bug sent users’ photos in the clear. A researcher found and reported a bug the Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps for Android that could allow an attacker in view and download images a user sends to Facebook due to the app’s failure to use HTTPS. The issue was reported in February and the researcher reported that the issue has been fixed. Source: http://threatpost.com/facebook-android-bug-sent-users-photos-in-the-clear

Communications Sector

31. September 18, KREM 2 Spokane – (Washington) Crooks take off with over $17K in copper in Spokane Valley. Police are searching for the thieves that stole $17,500 worth of copper material from a building and tower in Spokane Valley belonging to AT&T, Cricket, and Nextel. Source: http://www.krem.com/news/Over-17500-in-Copper-Stolen-224270391.html

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