Tuesday, December 30, 2014



Complete DHS Report for December 30, 2014

Daily Report

Top Stories

 · A rock slide December 27 in Minturn, Colorado, blocked Highway 24 with large boulders and prompted the road to close indefinitely while crews cleared the debris and inspected the hillside for stability. – KCNC 4 Denver

9. December 28, KCNC 4 Denver – (Colorado) Rock slide forces closure of Highway 24 near Minturn. A rock slide December 27 in Minturn blocked Highway 24 with large boulders and prompted the road to close indefinitely while crews cleared the debris and inspected the hillside for stability. Source: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/12/28/rock-slide-forces-closure-of-highway-24-near-minturn/

· The Alaska Department of Epidemiology reported December 24 that at least 25 individuals in Bristol Bay communities were sickened in an ongoing botulism outbreak linked to a batch of seal oil produced in the village of Twin Hills that tested positive for the botulinum toxin. – KDLG 670 AM/89.9 FM Dillingham

16. December 24, KDLG 670 AM/89.9 FM Dillingham – (Alaska) Botulism outbreak, batch of Twin Hills seal oil to blame. The Alaska Department of Epidemiology reported December 24 that at least 25 individuals in Bristol Bay communities were sickened in an ongoing botulism outbreak linked to a batch of seal oil produced in the village of Twin Hills that tested positive at the highest measurable level for botulinum toxin. Source: http://kdlg.org/post/botulism-outbreak-batch-twin-hills-seal-oil-blame

· A boil water advisory was issued December 25 through December 27 for at least 27,500 Casselberry, Florida residents following a water treatment system malfunction. – WESH 2 Daytona Beach

19. December 25, WESH 2 Daytona Beach – (Florida) Boil water notice affects at least 27,500 Casselberry residents. A boil water advisory was issued December 25 for at least 27,500 Casselberry, Florida residents following a water treatment system malfunction that prevented the city from maintaining the minimum required chlorine residual. The boil water advisory was expected to be in effect through December 27. Source: http://www.wesh.com/news/boil-water-notice-affects-at-least-27500-casselberry-residents/30397646

· A fire at the Wedgwood Senior Apartments complex in Castle Hills, Texas, December 28 killed 5 residents, injured more than a dozen others, and prompted the evacuation of 350 individuals. – Associated Press

28. December 29, Associated Press – (Texas) 17 in hospital after deadly Texas high-rise fire. A fire at the Wedgwood Senior Apartments complex in Castle Hills, Texas, December 28 killed 5 residents, injured more than a dozen others, and prompted the evacuation of 350 individuals. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blaze and the whereabouts of about 80 residents that remained unaccounted for December 29. Source: www.khou.com/story/news/local/texas/2014/12/28/fire-breaks-out-at-senior-apartments-in-san-antonio/20966821/wed

Financial Services Sector

5. December 29, Wall Street Journal – (New Jersey) Pershing LLC fined $3 million for reserve level, supervisory failures. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined Pershing LLC, a unit of the Bank of New York Mellon Corp., $3 million December 29 for failing to maintain certain reserve levels and for supervisory failures after regulators discovered the company violated U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s customer protection rule. The company had reserve deficiencies ranging from $4 million to $220 million from November 2010 to August 2011 and put securities to risk by failing to maintain physical possession of some fully paid and margin securities. Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/pershing-llc-fined-3-million-for-reserve-level-supervisory-failures-1419866070

6. December 26, Bloomberg News; Chicago Tribune – (International) Credit Suisse must face $10 billion N.Y. mortgage-fraud lawsuit. Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group was ordered by a New York State Supreme Court justice to face a $10 billion lawsuit initiated by the State’s attorney general December 24 accusing the bank of fraud in the sales of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis. Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-credit-suisse26-20141226-story.html

Information Technology Sector

24. December 29, V3.co.uk – (International) Twitter trouble kicks Android users out of the action. Twitter resolved a software issue which prevented Android users from posting on the site for 3 hours December 28. Source: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2388188/twitter-trouble-kicks-android-users-out-of-the-action

25. December 28, IDG News Service – (International) Sony: PlayStation Network is back online now, really. Sony reported that its PlayStation Network was fully restored December 28 following a December 25 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that knocked the network offline. The Lizard Squad hacker group allegedly claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack which also took down Microsoft’s Xbox Live through December 26, and the group claimed that the Tor network was its next target for a zero-day attack. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2863814/sony-playstation-network-is-back-online-now-really.html

26. December 27, Softpedia – (International) Exploit for Android same origin policy flaw is leveraged against Facebook users. Researchers with Trend Micro, Facebook, and BlackBerry are working to detect and resolve an attack targeting Facebook users using a campaign relying on a Blackberry app to steal access tokens which uses the same origin policy (SOP) exploit flaw in the Web browser of the Android OS lower than 4.4. The attackers rely on the vulnerability to serve a malicious JavaScript file to victims which is stored in a cloud storage account. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Exploit-for-Android-Same-Origin-Policy-Is-Leveraged-Against-Facebook-Users-468351.shtml

27. December 27, Softpedia – (International) Internet Systems Consortium website has been compromised to serve malware. The Web site of Internet Systems Consortium, which maintains BIND and relies on WordPress, was taken offline after the site was hacked with a malicious code. Administrators urged users to check their computers while they investigated the apparent issue with the content management system (CMS) after visitors were redirected to a malicious location hosting Angler Exploit Kit (EK). Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Internet-Systems-Consortium-Website-Has-Been-Compromised-to-Serve-Malware-468365.shtml

Communications Sector

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