Tuesday, January 10, 2017



Complete DHS Report for January 10, 2017

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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/