Friday, August 28, 2015



Complete DHS Report for August 28, 2015

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Top Stories

 · A U.S. Air Force report revealed that the near-crash and ensuing fire in a RC-135V aircraft in April was caused by an oxygen leak due to an improperly tightened retaining nut connecting tubing in the aircraft’s galley. – CNN

3. August 27, CNN – (National) Loose nut costs Air Force $62.4 million in accident. A U.S. Air Force report published in early August revealed that the near-crash and ensuing fire in a RC-135V aircraft in April, which caused $62.4 million in damage, was caused by an oxygen leak due to an improperly tightened retaining nut connecting tubing in the aircraft’s galley. The report attributed the failure to L-3 Communications depot personnel who were responsible for the plane’s maintenance. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/politics/loose-nut-air-force-crash/

 · BNY Mellon Corp worked to address an issue August 26 in its InvestOne system, after the system broke down over the weekend of August 22 and created a backlog of funds to price. – Reuters See item 5 below in the Financial Services Sector

 · Utah-based Novacare, LLC issued a voluntary recall August 24 of several lots of various brands of its dietary supplements due to mislabeling and undeclared salicylic acid. – U.S. Food and Drug Administration

15. August 26, U.S. Food and Drug Administration – (National) Novacare, LLC issues voluntary nationwide recall of dietary supplements due to undeclared salicylic acid. Utah-based Novacare, LLC issued a voluntary recall August 24 of several lots of various brands of its dietary supplements due to mislabeling and undeclared salicylic acid, which is acutely toxic. The unapproved dietary supplements were distributed nationwide.

 · Fire Crews across the Northwest worked August 27 to contain about 50 large wildfires that have burned nearly 1.6 million acres in parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. – Reuters

22. August 27, Reuters – (National) Wildfire smoke fouls air across U.S. Northwest. Fire Crews across the Northwest worked August 27 to contain about 50 large wildfires that have burned nearly 1.6 million acres in parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. The wildfires have forced evacuations for thousands of residents, killed 3 firefighters, and prompted an air quality warning in the region due to unhealthy and smoky air. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/27/us-usa-wildfires-idUSKCN0QV29Y20150827

Financial Services Sector

4. August 27, Softpedia – (International) PayPal fixes XSS flaw that allowed access to unencrypted credit card details. PayPal addressed a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw on the Web site’s SecurePayments page in which an attacker could inject customized payment forms into the page HyperText Markup Language (HTML) in order to intercept user financial and PayPal login information in clear text. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/paypal-fixes-xss-flaw-that-allowed-access-to-unecrypted-credit-card-details-490217.shtml

5. August 26, Reuters – (National) BNY Mellon pricing glitch affects billions of dollars of funds. BNY Mellon Corp worked to address an issue August 26 in its InvestOne system that is uses to calculate prices for client mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETF), after the system broke down over the weekend of August 22 and created a backlog of funds to price. The system, run by SunGard, was operating at limited capacity August 25. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/26/bnymellon-funds-nav-idUSL1N1112FT20150826

6. August 26, WLS 7 Chicago – (Illinois) ‘Uptown Beach Bandit’ robs 3 North Side banks. The FBI is searching for a suspect dubbed the “Uptown Beach Bandit” who authorities allege has robbed 3 North Side banks in Chicago since August 5, with the latest robbery occurring August 22 at a TCF bank. The suspect is considered armed and dangerous. Source: http://abc7chicago.com/news/uptown-beach-bandit-robs-3-north-side-banks/957607/

Information Technology Sector

24. August 27, The Register – (International) FireEye intern VXer pleads guilty for Darkode droid RAT ruse. A former FireEye intern from Pittsburgh pleaded guilty to creating and selling the Dendroid remote access trojan (RAT) for Android phones on the Darkode hacker forums. Denroid was capable of infecting about 1,500 phones for each buyer, while it is unknown how many copies the suspect sold. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/27/fireeye_intern_vxer_pleads_guilty_for_darkode_droid_rat_ruse/

25. August 27, Threatpost – (International) Endress+Hauser patches buffer overflow in dozens of ICS products. Endress+Hauser and CodeWrights released updates addressing a remotely exploitable vulnerability found in the Device Type Manager (DTM) library of dozens of Endress+Hauser’s products used for industrial process automation, in which an attacker could use a specially crafted packet to create a buffer overflow in the DTM, causing the affected product to hang indefinitely.Source: https://threatpost.com/endresshauser-patches-buffer-overflow-in-dozens-of-ics-products/114429

26. August 27, Securityweek – (International) Small percentage of employees responsible for most cloud security risk: Report. Report findings from a CloudLock analysis of 10 million users across 1,800 organizations revealed that the top 1 percent of users in organizations are responsible for 57 percent file ownership, 81 percent of file shares, 73 percent of exposed files, and 62 percent of application industries, suggesting that cyber risks could be mitigated by reaching out to an organization’s top users, among other findings. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/small-percentage-employees-responsible-most-cloud-security-risk-report

For another story, see item 4 above in the Financial Services Sector

Communications Sector
 
27. August 26, Brainerd Dispatch – (Minnesota) Accidental fiber cut causes 2+ day Internet outage near Aitkin. CenturyLink officials reported that 2,197 DSL Internet customers around Aitkin, Crosby, Deerwood, and Detroit Lakes were without service from August 22 to August 24 after a third-party vendor inadvertently cut a fiber line. Source: http://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/3826028-accidental-fiber-cut-causes-2-day-internet-outage-near-aitkin

28. August 26, Glen Falls Post-Star – (New York) Thurman phone outage could last into Thursday. The town of Thurman in New York was without phone and Internet service August 25 after a vehicle hit a utility pole, damaging Verizon equipment and forcing residents to use phones in nearby towns, or at the local Town Hall or fire station. Officials reported that service may not be restored until August 27. Source: http://poststar.com/news/local/thurman-phone-outage-could-last-into-thursday/article_4e2264ec-e9f0-592b-af82-9ba6812b5967.html