Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
VPN Logs Lead to Capturing of an Ex-PenAir Employee Who
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Woman who hacked airline network busted through VPN logs
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Don’t panic too much – the hack of the legacy commercial airliner was an exercise conducted by a team of security professionals.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading A Boeing 757 was hacked remotely while it sat on the runway
Boarding gate displays at an airport leaked information that could have allowed attackers to gain access to passengers’ bookings and their personal details.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Airline passengers’ bookings and info leaked by boarding gate displays
Tonight’s big malspam run in the never ending series of Locky downloaders is an email with the subject of Travel Itinerary pretending to come from random airline companies with a semi- random named zip attachment starting with Travel_Itinerary containing a WSF file They use … Continue reading →
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Remember September 2016 2015? That was the month that [Ahmed Mohamed] brought a modified clock to school and was accused of being a terrorist. The event divided people with some feeling like it was ignorance on the part of the school, some felt the school had to be cautious, some felt it was racial profiling, and others thought it was a deliberate provocation from his possibly politically active parents. In the end, [Ahmed] moved to Qatar.
Regardless of the truth behind the affair, this month we’ve seen something that is probably even less ambiguous. The Washington Post reports that a …read more
Continue reading If You See Anything, Say Something? Math on a Plane
The mass media are funny in the way they deal with new technology. First it’s all “Wow, that’s Cool!”, then it’s “Ooh, that’s scary”, and finally it’s “BURN THE WITCH!”. Then a year or so later it’s part of normal life and they treat it as such. We’ve seen the same pattern repeated time and time again over the years.
Seasoned readers may remember silly stories in the papers claiming that the Soviets could somehow use the technology in Western 8-bit home computers for nefarious purposes, since then a myriad breathless exclusives have predicted a youth meltdown which never materialised …read more
