Complete DHS Report for January 15, 2016
Daily Report
Top Stories
• A water main break in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania January
13 caused thousands of gallons of water to rupture skyward, freezing over power
lines and roadways and causing damages to nearby businesses. – Montgomery
Media
10. January
14, Montgomery Media – (Pennsylvania) Water main break in Conshohocken causes icy
mess. A water main break in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania January 13 caused
thousands of gallons of water to rupture skyward, freezing over power lines and
roadways and causing damages to nearby businesses. The cause of the break is
still under investigation. Source: http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2016/01/14/colonial_news/news/doc56966b1bf2ec2579347614.txt
• A U.S. Senate health committee released a report January
13 revealing that the specialized device, duodenoscopes caused more than two
dozen outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant infections and revealed that the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration failed to identify and alert the public about the
faulty device, among other data. – Washington Post
11. January
13, Washington Post – (International) Tainted medical scopes have sickened hundreds
in U.S., Europe, Senate investigation finds. A U.S. Senate health committee
released a report January 13 that revealed the specialized device
duodenoscopes, used to drain fluid from pancreatic and bile ducts, was linked
to more than two dozen outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant infections that
sickened 250 people in the U.S. and Europe and that the device’s manufacturers,
hospitals, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to identify and alert
problems with the device to the public. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/01/13/senate-report-tainted-medical-scopes-have-sickened-hundreds-in-u-s-europe/
• Cisco released software updates that addressed critical
vulnerabilities in several of its networking and security products including an
unauthorized access issue that allowed attackers to modify a device’s configuration.
– SecurityWeek See
item 18 below in the Information Technology Sector
• A Prince George Country fire official reported that a
2-alarm fire at the Presidential Park Condominiums displaced 10 residents,
injured 5 people, and caused an estimated $200,000 in damages January 13. – WUSA
9 Washington
22. January
14, WUSA 9 Washington – (Maryland) Five recovering after massive
Adelphi apartment building. A Prince George Country fire official reported
that a 2-alarm fire at the Presidential Park Condominiums displaced 10
residents, injured 5 people, and caused an estimated $200,000 in damages
January 13. Officials believe the fire was accidental and are investigating the
cause of the blaze. Source: http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/maryland/2016/01/13/2-alarm-fire-apartment-building-adelphi/78759304/
Financial Services Sector
2. January
13, Associated Press – (New York; Florida) U.S. Treasury Department to track some
real estate deals in NY and Miami. The U.S. Department of the Treasury
announced January 13 that it will track sales of high-end real estates in
Manhattan and Miami in order to discover and prevent money-laundering by
establishing temporary disclosure requirements beginning March 2016, which will
require certain title companies to identify individuals behind companies that
purchase properties exceeding $3 million. Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/the-treasury-department-says-it-will-begin-tracking-sales-of-high-end-real-estate-in-2-of-the-countrys-most-expensive-markets--365160081.html
3. January
13, Los Angeles Business Journal – (California) Former Mirae Bank
exec charged with bank fraud. A former executive of Mirae Bank was charged
January 13 with 6 counts of Federal bank fraud and 2 counts of falsifying
statements to a financial institute after allegedly arranging $150 million in
fraudulent loans on behalf of the bank and skimming money from the loans for
personal profit, which reportedly led to approximately $33 million in losses
and the bank’s failure by 2009.
4. January
13, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – (National) SEC charges
11 bank officers and directors with fraud. The U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission charged 11 former executives and board members of Birmingham-based
Superior Bank and its holding company January 13 for their involvement in
various fraud schemes in which they allegedly concealed or understated the
bank’s allowances for loan and lease losses (ALLL) by propping up Super Bank’s
financial condition through straw borrowers, fake appraisals, and insider
deals. Source: http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-7.html
Information Technology Sector
18. January
14, SecurityWeek – (International) Cisco patches serious flaw in networking,
security products. Cisco released software updates that addressed multiple
critical vulnerabilities in several of its networking and security products
including an unauthorized access issue that affects Cisco standalone and
modular controllers running Wireless LAN Controller (LAN) software that allowed
attackers to modify the device’s configuration and compromise the device. Source:
http://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-serious-flaws-networking-security-products
19. January
13, Softpedia – (International) DHCP gets a fix for denial-of-service bug. The
Internet Systems Consortium (ICS) patched a flaw in its Dynamic Host Configuration
Profile (DHCP) software packages after a security researcher from Sophos
discovered the vulnerability allowed attackers to crash the systems by sending
a malicious network packet with an invalid IPv4 UDP length field. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/dhcp-gets-a-fix-for-denial-of-service-bug-498882.shtml
20. January
13, IDG News Service – (International) Microsoft fixes critical flaws in Windows,
Office, Edge, IE and other products. Microsoft released security updates
that patched critical flaws in its Windows, Office, Edge, Internet Explorer,
Silverlight, and Visual Basic products, including remote code execution
vulnerabilities, elevation of privilege vulnerabilities, and a spoofing flaw.
21. January
13, Softpedia – (International) Shoddy ransomware destroys user’s files. Security
researchers from Trend Micro identified a ransomware dubbed RANSOME_CRYPTEAR.B
that used a crypto flaw hidden in the Hidden Tear ransomware to infect users
and encrypt their files by redirecting users to fake Adobe Flash Web sites that
distributes a malicious Flash Player update and allows attackers to infect the
victim’s system with a crypto-ransomware that would encrypt all data files.
Authors of the malware were seen throwing away the encryption key, rendering
all encrypted files unrecoverable. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/shoddy-ransomware-destroys-the-user-s-files-498889.shtml
Communications Sector
Nothing to report
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