Complete DHS Report for
July 20, 2015
Daily Report
Top Stories
· Massachusetts police arrested a suspect
July 15 who is believed to be connected to a ring of Romanian ATM skimmers that
have stolen over $1 million from Bank of America. – WFXT 25 Boston See item 3 below
in the Financial Services Sector
· Officials revealed July 15 that airline
workers smuggled drugs through a Texas airport for distribution nationwide as
part of an undercover operation orchestrated by Federal and local agents that
led to the indictment of 46 people. – Washington Post
12. July 16,
Washington Post – (National) 46 indicted in alleged drug ring at Tex. airport. Officials
revealed July 15 that airline workers smuggled drugs through Dallas-Fort Worth
International Airport for distribution nationwide as part of an undercover
operation orchestrated by Federal and local agents that led to the indictment
of 46 people who allegedly helped carry drugs to evade the Transportation
Security Administration, and board planes to Chicago, Las Vegas, Newark,
Phoenix, Wichita and San Francisco.
· Aspen Foods, a subsidy of Koch Poultry
Company of Chicago, is recalling approximately 1,978,680 pounds of frozen, raw,
stuffed, and breaded chicken products due to possible salmonella enteritis
contamination.– Food Safety News
15. July 16, Food
Safety News – (National) Nearly 2 million pounds of frozen, raw stuffed
chicken products recalled. Aspen Foods, a subsidy of Koch Poultry Company
of Chicago, is recalling approximately 1,978,680 pounds of frozen, raw,
stuffed, and breaded chicken products due to possible salmonella enteritis
contamination. The products were shipped nationwide. Source: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/07/nearly-2-million-pounds-of-frozen-raw-stuffed-chicken-products-recalled/#.VajsINxBSUk
· A Colorado man was convicted July 17 of
24 counts of first-degree murder from a July 2012 theater shooting in which 12
people died and 70 others wounded. – CNN
20. July 17,
CNN – (Colorado) Found guilty of murder in Colorado theater
shooting. A Colorado man was convicted July 17 of 24 counts of first-degree
murder from a July 2012 theater shooting in which 12 people died and 70 others
wounded. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/16/us/james-holmes-trial-colorado-movie-theater-shooting-verdict/index.html
Financial Services Sector
2. July 17,
Long Beach Press-Telegram – (California) ‘Cal Bear Bandit’ pleads
guilty to bank robberies in Westminster. The suspect dubbed the “Cal Bear
Bandit” pleaded guilty July 16 to charges surrounding 8 bank robberies across
Orange County dating back to August 2014.
3. July 16,
WFXT 25 Boston – (Massachusetts) Medford police arrest man possibly connected
to ATM skimming ring. Police in Medford, Massachusetts arrested a suspect
July 15 believed to be connected to a ring of Romanian ATM skimmers that have
stolen over $1 million from Bank of America. The suspect allegedly stole over
$100,000 from the bank and is linked to 4 other cases in Massachusetts. Source:
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/29566726/medford-police-arrest-man-possibly-connected-to-atm-skimming-ring
4. July 16,
Dow Jones Business News – (National) BMO Harris settles Ponzi scheme
lawsuit for $16 million. BMO Harris Bank agreed to pay $16 million July 16
in a settlement with Palm Beach Finance Partners LP and Palm Beach Finance II
LP, resolving allegations that its subsidiary, M&I Bank, was complicit in a
Ponzi scheme run by a Minnesota businessman that cost investors billions of
dollars. Source: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bmo-harris-settles-ponzi-scheme-lawsuit-for-16-million-20150716-00873
5. July 16,
U.S. Department of Justice – (National) California payment processing
company owner pleads guilty to fraud. The owner of California-based Check
Site Inc., pleaded guilty July 16 to charges that he used his company to assist
at least two fraudulent payday loan merchants who used consumer information to
withdraw millions of dollars from consumer accounts without their knowledge by
knowingly processing the transactions, and by providing the merchants access to
the banking system via remotely created checks (RCC). Source: https://www.fbi.gov/philadelphia/press-releases/2015/california-payment-processing-company-owner-pleads-guilty-to-fraud
For additional stories, see
item 9 below from the Transportation
Systems Sector and 22 below in the Information
Technology Sector
9. July 17,
WBNS 10 Columbus – (Maryland) Armored truck spills cash inside highway tunnel. Baltimore’s
Harbor Tunnel reopened July 16 after being shut down in both directions for
approximately 7 hours while crews recovered money that fell out of the rear
door of a Brinks armored truck July 15 after the truck’s door security
malfunctioned. Source: http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2015/07/17/ap-baltimore-maryland-cash-spills-onto-highway.html
Information Technology Sector
21. July 17,
Help Net Security – (International) Nearly all Web sites have serious security
vulnerabilities. Acunetix released a report on 15,000 Web site and network
scans of 5,500 companies revealing that almost half of Web applications scanned
contained high security vulnerabilities, and 4 of 5 were affected by medium
security vulnerabilities, plying that most organizations fail to comply with
the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), among other
findings. Source: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=18637
22. July 16,
Help Net Security – (International) New GamaPoS malware targets U.S. companies. Security
researchers from Trend Micro reported that the operators are using the
Andromeda botnet to deliver a new point-of-sale (PoS) malware called GamaPoS
that scrapes data via Microsoft’s .NET platform, to U.S. financial, information
technology, supply, hospitality, and retail organizations nationally, among
others. Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3077
23. July 16,
Threatpost – (International) TotoLink routers plagued by XSS, CSRF, RCE
bugs. Security researchers reported that 15 TotoLink routers contain
backdoor credentials, multiple remote code execution flaws that could allow an
attacker to bypass administrator authentication and execute commands, and
cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to change router network
configuration settings. Source: https://threatpost.com/totolink-routers-plagued-by-xss-csrf-rce-bugs/113816
For another story, see item 19 below from the Government Facilities Sector
19. July 16,
Washington Post – (National) Federal personnel files still very vulnerable and
‘prime targets’ for hackers, audit finds. An audit by the U.S. Department
of the Interior inspector general’s office found 3,000 “critical” and
“high-risk” vulnerabilities in 3 unnamed key bureaus of the department,
potentially allowing hackers to gain access to internal networks through
hundreds of publicly accessible computers whose systems are compromised. A lack
of central authority over the agency’s information technology systems is
delaying fixes, according to the agency’s chief information officer. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/07/16/federal-personnel-files-still-very-vulnerable-and-prime-targets-for-hackers-audit-finds/
Communications Sector
24. July 17,
Reuters – (National) T-Mobile to pay $17.5 million to settle U.S. 911
outage investigation. The Federal Communications Commission reported July
17 that T-Mobile US Inc. has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a U.S.
investigation of two 911 service outages in 2014 that prevented callers from
reaching first responders for 3 hours. Source: http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/T-Mobile+to+pay+$17.5+million+to+settle+U.S.+911+outage+investigation/10731828.html
25. July 16,
KSHB 41 Kansas City – (Missouri) Time Warner outage affects Liberty area, left
thousands without service. Time Warner customers in the Liberty area
experienced Internet, phone, and cable outages July 16 after a backhoe hit a
fiber line near Interstate 35. Crews planned to have service restored by July
17. Source: http://www.kshb.com/news/region-missouri/liberty/time-warner-outage-affects-liberty-area