Complete DHS Report for
September 23, 2015
Daily Report
Top Stories
• Multiple highways
and the Ben Franklin Bridge will close and traffic will be restricted in
Philadelphia September 25 before, during, and after Pope Francis’ visit to the
city. – WPVI 6 Philadelphia
4. September
21, WPVI 6 Philadelphia – (Pennsylvania) Major highway closures in
Philadelphia for papal visit. Multiple highways and the Ben Franklin Bridge
will close and traffic will be restricted in Philadelphia September 25 before,
during, and after Pope Francis’ visit to the city. The highways being closed
include the Ben Franklin Parkway, Interstate 76 eastbound from I-476 to I-95,
US Route 1, and several others. Source: http://6abc.com/religion/major-highways-to-close-later-this-week-for-papal-visit/904413/
• Federal and
Florida State officials reported September 22 that 85 square miles of farmland
were quarantined and a state of emergency was declared after 160 Oriental fruit
flies threatening over 400 crops were found on farms. – National Public
Radio
8. September
22, National Public Radio – (Florida) This pest has shut down south
Florida’s $700 million fruit industry. Federal and Florida State officials
reported September 22 that 85 square miles of farmland in Redland were
quarantined and a state of emergency was declared after 160 Oriental fruit
flies, which have the potential to harm over 400 crops, were found on farms.
Officials are working to eradicate the flies by stripping the fruit and
destroying the areas where the flies were found. Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/22/442329655/this-pest-has-shut-down-south-floridas-700-million-fruit-industry
• Check Point
researchers discovered a new type of malware packaged with the BrainTest
Android Application that employs persistence and advanced detection evasion
techniques, and has infected up to 1 million users’ devices. – Help Net
Security See
item 18 below in the Information Technology Sector
• Tenants from 151
units at a residential downtown Los Angeles high-rise building were evacuated
after a water main broke and 6-inch pipe ruptured, flooding 16 floors. – KABC
7 Los Angeles
24. September
21, KABC 7 Los Angeles – (California) Flooding from broken water
main prompts high-rise evacuation in downtown LA. Authorities reported
September 21 that tenants from 151 units at a residential high-rise building in
downtown Los Angeles were evacuated after a water main broke and a 6-inch pipe
ruptured, flooding 16 floors. The building was yellow tagged and residents were
not allowed back into the building while officials investigated the cause of
the leak and the extent of the damage. Source: http://abc7.com/news/flooding-from-broken-water-main-prompts-high-rise-evacuation-in-dtla/995201/
Financial Services Sector
2. September
21, Reuters – (National) Ex-Morgan Stanley adviser pleads guilty in
connection with data breach. A former Morgan Stanley financial adviser
pleaded guilty September 21 to taking confidential data including names,
addresses, account numbers, and investment information from 730,000 accounts
from a bank computer without permission between 2011 and 2014. No clients lost
money as a result of the breach. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/21/us-morgan-stanley-breach-plea-idUSKCN0RL22920150921
Information Technology Sector
17. September
22, Securityweek – (International) Adobe patches 23 vulnerabilities in Flash
Player. Adobe released updates for Flash Player addressing 23 information
disclosure, security bypass, memory leak, type confusion, use-after-free,
buffer overflow, stack corruption, and memory corruption vulnerabilities, and
includes additional validation checks to ensure rejection of malicious content
from vulnerable JSONP callback Application Program Interfaces (APIs), among
other improvements. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/adobe-patches-23-vulnerabilities-flash-player
18. September
22, Help Net Security – (International) Malware-infected game
discovered on Google Play, up to 1 million users at risk. Security
researchers from Check Point discovered a new type of malware employing
persistence and advanced detection evasion techniques, found packaged within
the BrainTest Android game application. The malware can download and execute
any code remotely and has infected about 200,000 – 1 million users. Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=3108
19. September
21, Threatpost – (International) Apple watchOS2 includes host of
code-execution patches. Apple released updates addressing over 12 code
execution
vulnerabilities in watchOS2 and other
Apple Watch components, as well as certificate validation issues and
vulnerabilities in CFNetwork, and a bug in the system’s dynamic linker, among
others. Source: https://threatpost.com/apple-watchos2-includes-host-of-code-execution-patches/114754/
20. September
20, PCWorld – (International) Nasty URL bug brings Google Chrome to a
screeching halt. Security researchers discovered a Uniform Resource Locator
(URL) denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the Google Chrome Web browser in
which mousing over “%%30%30” appended to the end of a URL causes the browser to
hang and crash. The issue affects both Windows and OS X current versions of
Chrome. Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984907/security/nasty-url-bug-brings-google-chrome-to-a-screeching-halt.html
For another story, see item 21 below in the Communications Sector
Communications Sector
21. September
22, The Register – (International) Shattered Skype slowly staggers to its feet
after 15-hour outage outrage. Microsoft’s Skype experienced a worldwide
outage for approximately 15 hours September 21 that prevented users from
logging in and using the video-voice call service due to a network issue. The
Skype Twitter feed reported that crews were working to reconnect users and
restore service. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/22/skype_working/
22. September
21, Raleigh News & Observer – (North Carolina) Construction
accident disrupts Verizon, Time Warner service. Thousands of Verizon and
Time Warner cable customers in Wake, Durham, and Orange counties in North
Carolina lost cell and Internet Service for more than 6 hours September 21 due
to a construction accident that damaged telecommunications fiber cable in
Raleigh. Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article36022797.html
For another story, see item 18 above in the Information
Technology Sector