Security News

Hacker Gets 8 Years in Prison for Threats to Schools, Airlines
2020-12-01 12:12

A North Carolina man was sentenced to 95 months in federal prison for his involvement in multiple cyber and swatting attacks. Responsible for making threats of shootings and bombings to numerous schools located in the United States and United Kingdom, Vaughn was sentenced to 95 months in prison for child pornography and 60 months for each of the other charges.

Airline DMARC Policies Lag, Opening Flyers to Email Fraud
2020-08-19 13:04

More than half of global airlines do not have DMARC policies in place, opening their customers up to email fraud attacks, a new report found. "Overall, major global carriers are failing to implement adequate email protection - leaving themselves open to phishing, impersonation attacks and other unauthorized use of corporate domains. This is despite email remaining the number one threat vector for cybercriminals," according to Adenike Cosgrove with Proofpoint in a Tuesday report.

Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked
2020-05-26 16:22

A law firm that is already chasing British Airways now claims it is suing Easyjet for up to £18bn, intending to take a modest £5.4bn cut for itself, after nine million people's data was stolen from the airline's servers. The no-win-no-fee firm, PGMBM, claimed in a statement today to have filed a case in London's High Court against the British airline.

Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked
2020-05-26 16:22

A law firm that is already chasing British Airways now claims it is suing Easyjet for up to £18bn, intending to take a modest £5.4bn cut for itself, after nine million people's data was stolen from the airline's servers. The no-win-no-fee firm, PGMBM, claimed in a statement today to have filed a case in London's High Court against the British airline.

British Airline EasyJet Suffers Data Breach Exposing 9 Million Customers' Data
2020-05-19 06:50

British low-cost airline EasyJet today admitted that the company has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, which it labeled "Highly sophisticated," exposing email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers. In an official statement released today, EasyJet confirmed that of the 9 million affected users, a small subset of customers, i.e., 2,208 customers, have also had their credit card details stolen, though no passport details were accessed.

British Airline EasyJet Suffers Data Breach Exposing 9 Million Customers' Data
2020-05-19 06:50

British low-cost airline EasyJet today admitted that the company has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, which it labeled "Highly sophisticated," exposing email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers. In an official statement released today, EasyJet confirmed that of the 9 million affected users, a small subset of customers, i.e., 2,208 customers, have also had their credit card details stolen, though no passport details were accessed.

Cathay Pacific Airlines Fined Over Data Breach
2020-03-05 18:18

The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office has fined Cathay Pacific Airways £500,000 over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 9.4 million customers, including 111,000 British citizens, during a four-year period. A Cathay Pacific spokesman tells Information Security Media Group that the airlines cooperated with the ICO during the investigation and that it has taken steps over the last two years to improve its corporate security.

Oddly specific 'cyber attack' hits Alaskan airline RavnAir and one plane type
2020-01-02 19:05

A small Alaskan airline has suffered a curiously specific "Cyber attack" that mostly affected its De Havilland Dash 8 airliners. RavnAir Group declared on 21 December that it had "Experienced a malicious cyber attack on our company's IT network" the day before, causing it to cancel all of its flights operated with Dash 8s on its RavnAir Alaska airline.

Cyber Attack Forces Airline to Cancel Flights in Alaska
2019-12-23 08:52

RavnAir canceled at least a half-dozen flights in Alaska on Saturday — at the peak of holiday travel — following what the company described as “a malicious cyber attack” on its computer network....

Former Contractor Sentenced to Prison for Hacking British Airline Jet2
2019-12-20 12:40

A former contractor of British low-cost airline Jet2 has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a cyberattack that shut down the airline’s systems for over 12 hours, the UK’s National Crime...