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• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
filed charges June 23 against Weston Capital Asset Management LLC and its
founder and president for allegedly moving $17 million from a hedge fund they
managed to another business without informing investors. – U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission See item 4 below in the Financial Services Sector
• 40,000 pounds of flour was discarded after
the semi-truck transporting it crashed into a railroad bridge in San Antonio,
Texas, June 23, halting train traffic for several hours and closing a local
roadway for at least 10 hours. – KSAT 12 San Antonio
5.
June 24, KSAT 12 San Antonio – (Texas) Flour truck crashes into
railroad bridge near Brackenridge HS. A semi-truck carrying 40,000 pounds
of flour crashed into a railroad bridge in San Antonio June 23, stopping train
traffic in both directions for several hours and a closing a local roadway for
at least 10 hours. The food products on the semi-truck were discarded due to
contamination concerns caused by exposure during the accident. Source: http://www.ksat.com/news/flour-truck-crashes-into-railroad-bridge-near-brackenridge-hs/26634468
• The collision of two semi-trucks and a
vehicle caused northbound Highway 99 near Tulare, California, to close for
nearly 12 hours June 20 – 21. – Porterville Recorder
6.
June 23, Porterville Recorder – (California) Crash causes Highway 99
closure. The collision of two semi-trucks and a vehicle caused northbound
Highway 99 near Tulare to shut down for nearly 12 hours June 20 – 21. No
injuries were reported. Source: http://www.recorderonline.com/news/crash-causes-highway-closure/article_3deeae74-faf8-11e3-a2c1-001a4bcf6878.html
• Wright State University officials canceled
classes June 23 after 10 buildings on the Fairborn, Ohio campus were evacuated
when a 2-liter bottle of acetic acid accidentally spilled in a laboratory
inside of one of the buildings. – WRGT 45 Dayton
18. June 23, WRGT 45 Dayton – (Ohio) Some activities
will resume today following Wright State acid spill. Wright State
University officials announced June 23 that classes were canceled after 10
buildings on the Fairborn campus were evacuated when a 2-liter bottle of acetic
acid accidentally spilled in a lab located in the basement of one of the
buildings. One person was transported to a local hospital after inhaling some
of the fumes from the spill. Source: http://www.fox45now.com/shared/news/top-stories/stories/wrgt_vid_20798.shtml
Financial Services Sector
3. June 23, Los Angeles Times –
(California) Hypnotist Bandit strikes in Manhattan Beach, fourth bank in a
month. Police in Los Angeles linked a suspect known as the “Hypnotist Bandit”
to the June 20 robbery of a Bank of America branch in Manhattan Beach, making
it the fourth robbery connected to the suspect. Source: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hypnotist-bandit-strikes-manhattan-beach-20140623-story.html
4. June 23, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission – (Florida) SEC charges hedge fund advisory firm and
others in south Florida-based scheme to misuse investor proceeds. The U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges June 23 against Weston Capital
Asset Management LLC and its founder and president for allegedly moving $17
million from a hedge fund they managed to another business without informing
investors. The founder, his former general counsel, and his son then allegedly
received $750,000 from the second business and used $3.5 million to pay down a
loan from another fund. Source: http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370542137996
Information Technology Sector
21. June 24, IDG News Service – (International) New
Havex malware variants target industrial control system and SCADA users. Researchers
with F-Secure reported June 23 that attackers have been distributing new
versions of the Havex remote access trojan (RAT) by compromising industrial
control system (ICS) manufacturers’ Web sites and adding the RAT to legitimate
software downloads. The researchers did not name the manufacturers but stated
that they are based in Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2367241/new-havex-malware-variants-target-industrial-control-system-and-scada-users.html
22. June 24, Threatpost – (International) Researchers go
inside HackingTeam mobile malware, command infrastructure. Researchers from
Kaspersky Lab and the University of Toronto reported findings of research into
the Remote Control System (RCS) or Galileo malware created and sold by the
HackingTeam company to various governments and law enforcement agencies,
including the malware’s command and control (C&C) infrastructure and mobile
malware components for Android and iOS devices. The researchers also found that
the majority of the C&C servers were hosted in
the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ecuador, and Kazakhstan. Source: http://threatpost.com/researchers-go-inside-hackingteam-mobile-malware-command-infrastructure
23. June 24, The Register – (International) Comcast
Xfinity evil twin steals subscriptions. A researcher at LogRhythm Labs
demonstrated how an attacker could compromise Comcast Xfinity accounts by
creating a malicious hotspot that mimics Comcast customer-run hotspots, and
that Comcast customer devices would automatically connect to. The malicious
hotspot then presents a legitimate-looking login page that collects a
customer’s login and password. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/24/comcast_xfinity_evil_twin_steals_subcriptions/
Communications Sector
24.
June 24, WYFF 4 Greenville – (South Carolina) Outage hits Keowee Key
911, Internet, landlines. Residents in the Oconee County area experienced
an AT&T landline and Internet outage June 24 that was expected to last
through June 26 according to Oconee officials. Cell phone service was not
affected. Source: http://www.wyff4.com/news/outage-hits-keowee-key-911-internet-landlines/26634064
For
another story, see item 23 above
in the Information Technology Sector