Complete DHS Report for January 10, 2017
Daily Report
Top Stories
• Over 91,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers across
northern California were without power January 8 after severe weather caused
flooding and downed power lines January 7. – Los Angeles Times
2. January 8, Los Angeles
Times – (California) More than 90,000 Californians without power. Over
91,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers across northern California
were without power January 8 after severe weather caused flooding and downed
power lines January 7. Company officials expect to restore power to most of the
impacted customers January 9.
• Roughly 3,500 gallons of gasoline were spilled into a small
creek that leads to a tributary of Beaver Run Reservoir January 8 after a
tanker truck overturned in Salem Township, Pennsylvania. – KDKA 2 Pittsburgh
3. January 8, KDKA 2
Pittsburgh – (Pennsylvania) Gasoline gushes from ruptured tanker truck
in Salem Twp. Roughly 3,500 gallons of gasoline were spilled January 8
after a tanker truck overturned while exiting the Sunoco Logistics Partners LP
fuel terminal in Salem Township, Pennsylvania. The gasoline spilled into a
small creek that leads to a tributary of Beaver Run Reservoir and the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is monitoring the water
quality in the creek. Source: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/01/08/report-gasoline-gushes-from-ruptured-tanker-truck-in-salem-twp/
• A former vice president of U.S. operations at Poseidon Concepts
Corporation in Calgary, Canada, was charged January 5 for his role in a
securities fraud scheme where he allegedly caused the company to fictitiously
report roughly $100 million in revenue from purported contracts with oil and
natural gas companies.– U.S. Department of Justice See item 6
below in the Financial Services Sector
• Five people were killed
and six others were injured after a man opened fire at the baggage claim in
Terminal 2 of the Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport in Florida
January 6. – Associated Press; WTVJ 6 Miami (See item 7)
7. January 9, Associated Press; WTVJ 6 Miami – (Florida) 5 dead, 6 wounded in shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport. Five people were killed and six others were
injured after a man opened fire at the baggage claim in Terminal 2 of the Fort
Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport in Florida January 6. The suspect
surrendered to authorities and was indicted on Federal charges. Source: http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Shooting-Reported-Inside-Fort-Lauderdale--Hollywood-International-Airport-409905825.html
Financial Services Sector
6. January 6, U.S.
Department of Justice – (International) Former vice president of
publicly traded company charged with orchestrating $100 million securities
fraud scheme. A former vice president of U.S. operations at now-bankrupt
Poseidon Concepts Corporation in Calgary, Canada, was charged January 5 for his
role in a securities fraud scheme where from November 2011 to December 2012, he
allegedly caused the company to fictitiously report roughly $100 million in
revenue from purported contracts with oil and natural gas companies. The
charges allege that the defendant executed the scheme to enrich himself through
the continued receipt of funds and stock appreciation, while causing the firm’s
shares to lose nearly $1 billion in value.
Information Technology Sector
19. January 6,
SecurityWeek – (International) New “Ghost Host” technique boosts botnet
resiliency. Cyren security researchers reported that malware developers
have started leveraging a new technique, dubbed ghost host, which fools Web security
and Uniform Resource Locator (URL) filtering systems by inserting non-malicious
host names that are both registered and unregistered into the Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) host fields of a botnet’s communications, in order to
guarantee communication with the command and control (C&C) server is not
blocked by security systems. The botnet operator can also manipulate the server
to respond differently when messages using different ghost host names are
received, including commanding the botnet to download a specific type of
malware onto a device.
Communications Sector
20. January 8, WKBN 27
Youngstown – (Ohio) AT&T service outages restored across northeast
Ohio. AT&T Inc. technicians restored U-verse and Internet service to
thousands of customers in the Youngstown area of Ohio January 8 after a fiber
cut caused an outage January 6. Source: http://wkbn.com/2017/01/08/att-power-outages-being-reported-across-northeast-ohio/
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