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• An accountant at Advanced Pain Therapies in
Columbia, South Carolina, pleaded guilty June 6 to charges related to a $1.9
million embezzlement scheme involving fraudulent checks. – Columbia The
State
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June 6, Columbia The State – (South Carolina) Chapin accountant
pleads guilty to $1.9 million embezzlement fraud. An accountant at
Irmo-based Advanced Pain Therapies in Columbia, South Carolina, pleaded guilty
June 6 to charges related to a $1.9 million embezzlement scheme where she
created a fraudulent shell company and created checks made payable to her
company and hid them among legitimate invoices. Source: http://www.thestate.com/2014/06/06/3491673/chapin-accountant-pleads-guilty.html
• A McAfee and Center for Strategic and
International Studies report estimated that various forms of global cybercrime
caused losses of $445 billion a year to various industries. – Bloomberg News See item 29
below in the Information Technology
Sector
• Two suspects opened fire and killed two
police officers inside a pizzeria located at a Las Vegas strip mall June 8,
then fled to an adjacent Walmart store where they shot one individual and
exchanged gunfire with police before taking their own lives. – Associated
Press
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June 9, Associated Press – (Nevada) 2 officers, bystander killed in
Las Vegas ambush. Two suspects opened fire and killed two police officers
inside a pizzeria located at a Las Vegas strip mall June 8, then fled to an
adjacent Walmart store where they shot one individual and exchanged gunfire
with police before taking their own lives. The restaurant and Walmart remained
closed June 9 while officials investigated the incident. Source: http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/vegas-ambush-deaths-2-police-2-shooters-1-other
• 43 workers were sickened June 6 when a
chemical combined with moisture inside a trailer, producing an irritant at
Swift Transportation, a Walmart and Sam’s Club distribution center in Jurupa
Valley, California. – KCAL 9 Los Angeles; Associated Press
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June 6, KCAL 9 Los Angeles; Associated Press – (California) 43
employees sickened by odor at Jurupa Valley warehouse. Forty-three workers
were sickened when sodium benzoate came in contact with moisture inside a
trailer and produced a respiratory irritant at Swift Transportation, a Walmart
and Sam’s Club distribution center in Jurupa Valley, California, June 6.
Authorities contained the chemical and cleared the area. Source: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/06/06/29-employees-taken-ill-during-hazmat-spill-at-riverside-business/
Financial Services Sector
6. June 7, San Gabriel Valley
Tribune – (California) Two accused of planting skimmer at Sierra Madre
gas station. Two Glendale men were arrested June 7 for allegedly installing
a skimming device on a Sierra Madre gas station pump after an alarm on the pump
was triggered. One man was under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service, and
police found skimming devices, counterfeit payment cards, laptops, and tools
used to break into gas pumps in the men’s car. Source: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/general-news/20140607/two-accused-of-planting-skimmer-at-sierra-madre-gas-station
For another story, see item 29 below in the Information Technology
Sector
Information Technology Sector
29. June 9, Bloomberg News – (International) Cybercrime
remains growth industry with $445 billion lost. A McAfee and Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report estimated that various forms
of cybercrime globally caused losses of $445 billion a year to various
industries, including financial institutions, energy companies, and retailers.
The report pointed to stolen trade secrets and intellectual property as the
largest source of losses to legitimate companies, as well as the potential for
market manipulation and insider trading, among other findings. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-09/cybercrime-remains-growth-industry-with-445-billion-lost.html
30. June 6, Threatpost – (International) Debian urging
users patch Linux kernel flaw. Debian published a security update June 5
that closes several vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that could allow
attackers to perform privilege escalation or denial of service (DoS) attacks.
Users were advised to apply the patch as soon as possible. Source: http://threatpost.com/debian-urging-users-patch-linux-kernel-flaw
31. June 6, The Register – (International) Redmond is
patching Windows 8 but NOT Windows 7, say security bods. Two security
researchers created a tool known as DiffRay which scans Windows libraries and
found that several security functions were updated by Microsoft in Windows 8
but not in Windows 7. The researchers warned that the differences in patching
could lead to the discovery of zero day vulnerabilities. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/06/patch_piker_redmond_means_win_8_fixes_skip_7_researchers_say/
32. June 6, Dark Reading – (International) TweetDeck
scammers steal Twitter IDs via OAuth. Researchers at Bitdefender found that
scammers are luring users into authorizing TweetDeck as part of a free or paid
followers scheme, allowing the scammers to obtain users’ authentication tokens.
The scammers can then take actions on behalf of users, such as posting tweets
and following other users. Source: http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/tweetdeck-scammers-steal-twitter-ids-via-oauth/d/d-id/1269503
Communications Sector
33.
June 6, PC World – (National) T-Mobile confirms network calling
problems starting Friday morning. T-Mobile crews’ resolved call processing
problems affecting customers across several States June 6 after customers began
complaining about being unable to place calls or having issues with the network’s
mobile data service. Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2360750/t-mobile-confirms-network-calling-problems-starting-friday-morning.html