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Cybersecurity in Aviation: Rising Threats and Modernization Efforts

SecureWorld News

The attack vectors are diverse: fraudulent websites mimicking airline booking portals, phishing campaigns targeting airline staff, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks crippling airport websites malware infiltrating maintenance system, ransomware encrypting critical backend databases, and more. Beyond hardware, the U.S.

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The Cybersecurity Challenge in Mergers and Acquisitions

Digital Shadows

Responses suggested exploiting the information for insider trading, with one forum member comparing the potential profits to those from ransomware. In September 2022, we addressed a transportation customer incident in which a ransomware signature was detected on an endpoint from a newly acquired company.

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Author Q&A: The ongoing role of fortified structures in military clashes — and cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

Related: How Putin has weaponized ransomware In his new Polity Press book, The Guarded Age, Fortification in the Twenty-First Century , David J. Similarly, the rise of cloud-connected digital services made on-premise network defenses, like classic firewalls, obsolete. Can you extend that comparison?