Security News > 2020 > January > 97 of the world's 100 largest airports have massive cybersecurity risks
ImmuniWeb decided to look into airport cybersecurity after the topic was highlighted during the 2020 World Economic Forum.
In its own report, released on January 22, the WEF called for airports to address emerging cybersecurity challenges.
"Being a frequent flyer, I frankly prefer to travel via the airports that do care about their cybersecurity. Cybercriminals may well consider attacking the unwitting air hubs to conduct chain attacks of the travelers or cargo traffic, as well as aiming attacks at the airports directly to disrupt critical national infrastructure," Kolochenko said.
"In light of the omnipresent proliferation of CI/CD and DevOps across the globe, 87 out of 100 airports had some sensitive or internal data exposed at various public code repositories, such as GitHub or BitBucket. Amongst them, 59 airports were identified with 227 code leakages of critical risk," the report said.
Airports should have cybersecurity teams that are running continuous discovery programs and constantly performing an inventory of all digital assets.