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· JPMorgan
Chase & Co. stated October 2 that a cyberattack against the company’s
systems compromised the customer information of around 76 million households
and 7 million small businesses. – Associated Press See item 5 below in the Financial Services Sector
· A former
executive at Foundry Networks was found guilty October 2 on charges of insider
trading for passing along nonpublic information, allowing a former Artis
Capital Management LP analyst and over a dozen others to make over $27 million
in illicit profits. – Bloomberg News See item 6 below in the Financial Services Sector
· More than 800
flights were canceled at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and Midway
International Airport October 2 due to severe weather and system issues caused
by a September 26 fire at an Aurora, Illinois control center. – Reuters
9.
October 2, Reuters – (Michigan) More
than 800 flights canceled in Chicago due to weather, fire issues. More than
525 flights were canceled at O’Hare International Airport and nearly 300
flights were canceled at Midway International Airport October 2 due to severe
weather conditions and system issues caused by a September 26 fire at an
Aurora, Illinois control center. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/02/us-usa-chicago-weather-idUSKCN0HR1QA20141002
· An October 2
storm caused the cancellation of classes at the University of Texas at Arlington,
and closure of schools in the Dallas-metro area after roughly 180,000 customers
lost power. – Dallas Business Journal
26.
October 3, Dallas Business Journal –
(Texas) Arlington ISD, UT Arlington close campuses in wake of Thursday’s
storm. An October 2 storm that produced strong winds and heavy rain caused
the closure of all schools in the Arlington, Texas school district, the
cancellation of classes at the University of Texas at Arlington, the closure of
6 campuses in the Richardson and Mesquite Independent School District, and the
closure of 41 Dallas Independent School campuses after roughly 180,000
customers lost power. Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/morning_call/2014/10/arlington-isd-ut-arlington-close-campuses-in-wake.html
Financial Services Sector
4. October
3, WFTX 4 Fort Myers – (Florida) Deputies seize over 400 fake
credit cards. Lee County deputies arrested a man during a traffic stop
after finding over 400 counterfeit credit cards in his possession. Officials
stated that the fraudulent cards could have been worth over $4.1 million.
Source: http://www.jrn.com/fox4now/news/Deputies-seize-over-400-fake-credit-cards-278009891.html
5. October
2, Associated Press – (National) 76M households hit by JPMorgan
data breach. JPMorgan Chase & Co. stated October 2 that a large
cyberattack against the company’s systems compromised the customer information
of around 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. The attack was
discovered in August and began as early as June and compromised customers’
names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers but the bank stated that
there was no evidence that the breach included account information. Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jpmorgan-says-data-breach-affected-210556038.html
6. October
2, Bloomberg News – (New York) Ex-Foundry Networks official
guilty of passing tips. A former executive at Foundry Networks was found
guilty October 2 on charges of insider trading for passing along nonpublic
information about Foundry Networks’ acquisition by Brocade Communications
Systems Inc., allowing a former Artis Capital Management LP analyst and over a
dozen others to make over $27 million in illicit profits. Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-02/ex-foundry-networks-official-guilty-of-passing-tips
7. October
2, KABC 7 Los Angeles – (California) Chase driver identified as
‘Hills Bandit’ bank robbery suspect. A man who led police on a chase while
driving a truckload of steel allegedly stolen from a steel business in Santa Fe
Springs was arrested and identified by police as the suspect known as the
“Hills Bandit” responsible for up to 10 bank robberies in Orange County, San
Diego, and Santa Barbara. Source: http://abc7.com/news/chase-suspect-ided-as-hills-bandit-bank-robber/334292/
Information Technology Sector
35. October 3, Softpedia – (International) CryptoWall 2.0 available in the wild,
has new obfuscator. A 2.0 version of the CryptoWall ransomware has been
spotted in the wild by researchers and includes the use of the Tor network for
communicating with command and control servers and a new obfuscator to prevent
analysis and debugging. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/CryptoWall-2-0-Available-In-the-Wild-Has-New-Obfuscator-460927.shtml
36. October 3, Help Net Security – (International) Destructive Android trojan poses as
newest Angry Birds game. Researchers with Doctor Web identified a piece of
destructive Android malware detected as Android.Elite.1.origin that poses as an
unreleased Angry Birds game app and once installed deletes a device’s data,
blocks communications programs, and sends out a high volume of messages to all
contacts on the device. Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2877
37. October 2, Securityweek – (International) “BadUSB” code published. Two
researchers presenting at the Derbycon 4.0 conference reverse-engineered USB
firmware to launch various attacks and posted the attack code online. The flaw
in USB firmware that enables the attack was first revealed at the Black Hat
conference but the attack code was not released at that time. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/badusb-code-published
38. October 2, Threatpost – (International) Second same-origin policy bypass flaw
haunts Android browser. A researcher identified and reported a same-origin
policy bypass vulnerability in the Android browser in versions prior to 4.4
that could allow an attacker to steal data from a user’s browser. Google issued
a patch for the vulnerability for users of Android 4.1-4.3 in late September.
Source: http://threatpost.com/second-same-origin-policy-bypass-flaw-haunts-android-browser
Communications Sector
39.
October 2, Syracuse Journal-Democrat –
(Nebraska) Water shuts down communications for some local businesses. Full
Windstream Communications telephone and Internet service was restored to as
many as 100 customers in Syracuse, Nebraska, October 1 following an outage that
occurred September 30 due to heavy rains that soaked the cable lines. Source: http://www.journaldemocrat.com/article/20141002/NEWS/141009958