Complete DHS Report for April
2, 2015
Daily Report
Top Stories
· The
Brooklyn District Attorney announced March 31 that 23 New York City medical
professionals were charged for allegedly running an insurance fraud scheme that
billed Medicaid $7 million in expenses for patients they recruited from
homeless shelters and welfare centers between October 2012 and September 2014.
– Reuters
18. March
31, Reuters – (New York) New York doctors accused of using free
shoes offer to defraud Medicaid. The Brooklyn District Attorney announced
March 31 that 23 New York City doctors and medical workers were charged for
allegedly running an insurance fraud scheme that billed Medicaid $7 million in
expenses for patients they recruited from homeless shelters and welfare centers
between October 2012 and September 2014. The medical professionals promised the
recruited patients free shoes if they produced a Medicaid card and agreed to
undergo unnecessary physical therapy and testing. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/31/us-usa-new-york-fraud-idUSKBN0MR2J420150331
· Classes
at South Albany High School in Oregon were canceled April 1 following a 4-alarm
fire that destroyed 1 building and caused more than $1 million in damage. – KOIN
6 Portland
19. April
1, KOIN 6 Portland – (Oregon) 4-alarm fire causes $1M damage at
South Albany HS. Classes at South Albany High School in Oregon were
canceled April 1 following a 4-alarm fire that destroyed the cafeteria
building, which housed the band and choir rooms, and left more than $1 million
in damage. Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire. Source: http://koin.com/2015/04/01/significant-fire-burning-at-s-albany-high-school/
· About
$3.5 million of jewelry was stolen from the Diamonds by Monet store in
Temecula, California March 24 after a suspect broke into a safe where the
jewelry was held. – KABC 7 Los Angeles
29. April
1, KABC 7 Los Angeles – (California) $3.5M in jewels stolen from
Temecula business. More than 2,000 pieces of retail jewelry worth about
$3.5 million was stolen from the Diamonds by Monet jewelry store in Temecula
March 24 after a suspect cut holes into a roof and wall to access the store’s
office, then used a power saw and jackhammer to break into a safe where the
jewelry was held. A reward is being offered for information leading to an
arrest. Source: http://abc7.com/news/$35m-in-jewels-stolen-from-temecula-business/602231/
· A driver
fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run crash March 31 lost control of his vehicle
and crashed into a Star Food Mart store in Fort Worth, Texas, killing 1 person
and injuring 7 others. – KXAS 5 Fort Worth
30. April 1, KXAS 5 Fort Worth – (Texas) 1
killed, 7 injured as driver fleeing highway wreck crashes into store. A
driver fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run crash March 31 lost control of his
vehicle and crashed into a Star Food Mart store in Fort Worth, killing 1 person
and injuring 7 others. Firefighters worked to free several individuals that
were trapped by the vehicle, while crews stabilized the structure and shut off
power to the building. Source: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/4-Injured-After-Car-Slams-Into-Fort-Worth-Store-298186711.html
Financial Services Sector
7. March
31, Reuters – (International) Swiss asset manager pleads guilty
in U.S. over tax dodge scheme. A Swiss asset manager from an unidentified
firm pleaded guilty March 31 to conspiring to defraud the U.S. and the Internal
Revenue Service in a scheme in which he and a Zurich-based lawyer who pleaded
guilty in 2013 helped U.S. clients hide millions of dollars in offshore
accounts in at least 5 Swiss banks and established accounts under the names of
Liechtenstein-based sham foundations that they had created. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/31/us-usa-tax-swiss-idUSKBN0MR2KK20150331
For another story, see item 26 below
in the Information Technology Sector
Information Technology Sector
26. April 1, Help Net Security – (International) WordPress
sites compromised to redirect to Pirate Bay clone, exploit kit. Security
researchers at Malwarebytes identified a malware campaign that uses an unknown
number of compromised WordPress Web sites containing iframes that direct users
to a site hosting the Nuclear exploit kit, which leverages an Adobe Flash
Player vulnerability in versions before 16.0.0.287 to download a banking
trojan. Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3005
27. April 1, Softpedia – (International) Firefox
37 fixes critical flaws, adds OneCRL certificate revocation mechanism. Mozilla
released an update for its Firefox browser that addresses several critical
vulnerabilities, including two type confusion flaws, two memory corruption
crashes, a user-after-free error, and memory safety hazards that could have
allowed attackers to run arbitrary code on users’ systems. Firefox version 37
also includes OneCRL, a feature that allows developers to update the list of
revoked certificates without pushing a new application update. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-37-Fixes-Critical-Flaws-Adds-OneCRL-Certificate-Revocation-Mechanism-477314.shtml
28. March 31, Softpedia – (International) Google
bans 192 bad extensions affecting 14 million Chrome users. Google removed
192 extensions from its Web store that contained ad injectors that exposed up
to 14 million users to risks of man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks and links to
install dangerous software, after researchers at the University of California,
Berkeley devised a method to root out potentially malicious extensions.
Findings from a recent Google study confirmed that 5 percent of all visitors to
Google sites have ad injectors present on their systems, and that 34 percent of
Chrome extensions that contained ad injectors were classified as malware.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Bans-192-Bad-Extensions-Affecting-14-Million-Chrome-Users-477226.shtml
Communications Sector
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