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Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped
2024-04-19 20:30

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Co-founder of collapsed crypto biz Three Arrows cuffed at airport
2023-10-03 01:30

Asia in brief Zhu Su, co-founder of fallen crypto business Three Arrows Capital, was arrested last Friday at Changi Airport in Singapore as he attempted to leave the country. Zhu is expected to spend four months in jail for failing to comply with investigations into his ill-fated company, according to the 3AC's liquidators, consultancy firm Teneo.

TSA wants to expand facial recognition to hundreds of airports within next decade
2023-07-03 22:12

Its abilities have been assessed over the past two years, and the system has boosted identity verification efficiency without infringing on travelers' privacy rights, a TSA spokesperson told us. "Right now we are at six percent fully operational capacity," TSA press secretary Carter Langston said in an interview with The Register.

Dublin Airport staff pay data 'compromised' by criminals
2023-07-03 15:14

It's an awkward Monday for Dublin Airport after pay and benefits details for some 2,000 staff were apparently "Compromised" following a recent attack on professional service provider Aon. Victims of the criminals exploiting the MOVEit flaws include multiple US government agencies, Ofcom, the BBC, British Airways and Aer Lingus.

'Russian hacktivists' brag of flooding German airport sites
2023-02-17 18:30

A series of distributed denial-of-service attacks shut down seven German airports' websites on Thursday, a day after a major IT glitch at Lufthansa grounded flights. Ralph Beisel, the general manager of Germany's ADV airport association, confirmed the network-flooding events in an emailed statement to The Register, but did not specify which airports were hit.

Hacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System
2022-12-23 12:03

Two men have been convicted of hacking the taxi dispatch system at the JFK airport. This enabled them to reorder the taxis on the list; they charged taxi drivers $10 to cut the line.

Russians hacked JFK airport’s taxi dispatch system for profit
2022-12-21 18:29

Two U.S. citizens were arrested for allegedly conspiring with Russian hackers to hack the John F. Kennedy International Airport taxi dispatch system to move specific taxis to the front of the queue in exchange for a $10 fee. The taxi dispatch system is a computer-controlled system that ensures that taxis are dispatched from the airport's holding lot to pick up the next available fare at the appropriate terminal.

Pro-Putin goons claim responsibility for blowing US airport websites offline
2022-10-10 18:12

Russian miscreants claimed responsibility for knocking more than a dozen US airports' websites offline on Monday morning in what appeared to be a large-scale, distributed-denial-of-service attack. A spokesperson for the US Transportation Security Administration, when reached by The Register, said to contact the airports directly about the issue.

US airports' sites taken down in DDoS attacks by pro-Russian hackers
2022-10-10 14:15

The pro-Russian hacktivist group 'KillNet' is claiming large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks against websites of several major airports in the U.S., making them unaccessible.The DDoS attacks have overwhelmed the servers hosting these sites with garbage requests, making it impossible for travelers to connect and get updates about their scheduled flights or book airport services.

US airports taken down in DDoS attacks by pro-Russian hackers
2022-10-10 14:15

The pro-Russian hacktivist group 'KillNet' has carried out large-scale DDoS attacks against several U.S. airports' websites, taking many of them offline. The DDoS attacks have overwhelmed the servers hosting these sites with garbage requests, making it impossible for travelers to connect and get updates about their scheduled flights or book airport services.