Complete DHS Report for March 22, 2016
Daily Report
Top Stories
• A March 19 fire at the Kwik’Pak Fisheries LLC facility in
Emmonak, Alaska, destroyed 3 buildings, spread to 2 others owned by Yukon
Marine Manufacturing, and caused an estimated $3 million in damages. – KTUU
2 Anchorage
10. March 20,
KTUU 2 Anchorage – (Alaska) Saturday fire swallows five buildings in Emmonak
causing $3 million in damage. A March 19 fire at the Kwik’Pak Fisheries LLC
facility in Emmonak, Alaska, destroyed 3 buildings, spread to 2 others owned by
Yukon Marine Manufacturing, and caused an estimated $3 million in damages after
fire suppression efforts failed due to inoperable equipment. No injuries were
reported and authorities are investigating the cause of the blaze. Source: http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/emmonak-fire-swallows-five-buildings-causing-3-million-in-damage/38608818
• Apple Inc., will release an update patching a zero-day flaw in
its operating system (iOS) encryption which could allow attackers to decrypt
intercepted iMessages in iOS 9 and older iOS versions. – Help Net Security See item 20 below in
the Information Technology Sector
• Secunia researchers released a report detailing that in 2015,
16,081 flaws were found in 2,484 software applications from 263 different
vendors including Google, Adobe, Microsoft, and Oracle, among others. – Softpedia See item 22 below in
the Information Technology Sector
• A 3-alarm fire March 20 at the Flying J truck stop and the
Denny’s restaurant in Indianapolis caused about $4 million in damages and
prompted the truck stop’s indefinite closure. – WXIN 59 Indianapolis
23. March 21,
WXIN 59 Indianapolis – (Indiana) Fire at Indianapolis Flying J truck stop causes $4
million in damage. A 3-alarm fire at the Flying J truck stop and the
Denny’s restaurant in Indianapolis caused about $4 million in damages and
prompted the evacuation of 40 people after the fire began outside the
restaurant and spread to surrounding areas due to strong winds March 20. The
truck stop was closed indefinitely and officials are investigating the cause of
the fire.
Financial Services Sector
6. March 18,
South Florida Sun-Sentinel – (Florida; Indiana) Two arrested after
boarding plane with bundles of fake credit cards, detectives said. Officials
from the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced March 18 that 2 men were arrested
at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport March 16 after security
officials detected a total of 186 fraudulent Vanilla Visa and Walmart Stores,
Inc., gift cards in the pair’s checked luggage. Authorities stated that 83 of
the cards were re-encoded with real credit card numbers, some of which were
issued by banks to several card-holders in Indiana. Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-airport-gift-card-fraud-20160318-story.html
For another story, see item 28 from the Commercial Facilities Sector
28. March 19,
Associated Press – (California) Train hero’s father charged in California arson
fraud scheme. An indictment unsealed March 18 stated that 3 people were
charged for their involvement in an arson fraud scheme after the trio allegedly
set 7 fires at 6 commercial buildings in the Sacramento area and collected over
$1.5 million in insurance proceeds from 2009 – 2013. Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/19/train-heros-father-charged-in-california-arson-fraud-scheme.html
Information Technology Sector
20. March 21,
Help Net Security – (International) iOS zero-day breaks Apple’s iMessage
encryption. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University discovered a zero-day
flaw in Apple’s operating system (iOS) encryption which could allow attackers
to decrypt intercepted iMessages in iOS 9 and older iOS versions. Apple Inc.,
partially patched the vulnerability in iOS 9, but reported that the flaw will
be completely patched in iOS 9.3 March 21.
21. March 21,
SecurityWeek – (International) Symantec patches high risk vulnerabilities in
Endpoint protection. Symantec released a security update for its Symantec
Endpoint Protection (SEP) product which patched three high risk security flaws
including a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, a Structured Query
Language (SQL) injection vulnerability, and a bypass security flaw that could
allow authorized users with low privileges to gain elevated access to the
Management Console, as well as enable attackers to achieve arbitrary code
execution on a victim’s device by bypassing the SEP Client security
mitigations, among other actions. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/symantec-patches-high-risk-vulnerabilities-endpoint-protection
22. March 19,
Softpedia – (International) There were over 16,000 software bugs detected
in 2015. Secunia researchers released a report detailing that in 2015,
16,081 flaws were found in 2,484 software applications from 263 different
vendors including Google, Adobe, Microsoft, and Oracle, among others, and that
57 percent of the vulnerabilities could be exploited from a remote network. The
report stated that there was a 2 percent increase in vulnerabilities from 2014
– 2015. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/there-have-been-over-16-000-software-bugs-detected-in-2015-501939.shtml
Communications Sector
Nothing to report
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