European air traffic control confirms website ‘under attack’ by pro-Russia hackers

Europe’s air-traffic agency appears to be the latest target in pro-Russian miscreants’ attempts to disrupt air travel. Eurocontrol confirmed on Friday its website has been “under attack” since April 19, and said “pro-Russian hackers” had claimed responsibility for the disruption. Read More …

Understanding Cyber Threats in Transport

This new report maps and analyses cyber incidents in relation to aviation, maritime, railway and road transport covering the period of January 2021 to October 2022. The report brings new insights into the cyber threats of the transport sector. In Read More …

TSA issues new cybersecurity requirements for airport and aircraft operators

Today, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a new cybersecurity amendment on an emergency basis to the security programs of certain TSA-regulated airport and aircraft operators, following similar measures announced in October 2022 for passenger and freight railroad carriers. This is part of the Read More …

Scandinavian Airlines hit by cyber attack

Scandinavian airline SAS said it was hit by a cyber attack Tuesday evening and urged customers to refrain from using its app but later said it had fixed the problem. News reports said the hack paralyzed the carrier’s website and Read More …

Hacker finds copy of TSA no-fly list on exposed cloud storage

A copy of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s “no-fly list” has been found by a Swiss hacker exposed on the open internet in yet another case of misconfigured cloud storage. First reported by The Daily Dot, the exposure of the Read More …

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says flight personnel alert system not processing updates after outage

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) system that alerts pilots and other flight personnel about hazards or any changes to airport facility services and relevant procedures was not processing updated information, the civil aviation regulator’s website showed on Wednesday. In Read More …

Eurozone plans to formalize passenger data, improve security

The European Commission last week proposed rules governing the use of Advance Passenger Information in a bid to strengthen border security. As commissioner for home affairs Ylva Johansson explained during a press conference, travel in and out of the Schengen Read More …

Cyber vulnerability in networks used by spacecraft, aircraft and energy generation systems

A major vulnerability in a networking technology widely used in critical infrastructures such as spacecraft, aircraft, energy generation systems and industrial control systems was exposed by researchers at the University of Michigan and NASA. It goes after a network protocol Read More …

Hackers took down U.S. airport web sites, Department of Homeland Security confirms

Unknown hackers attacked and temporarily shut down the public-facing websites of at least several major U.S. airports on Monday, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to USA TODAY. The official from DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA, Read More …