An airline pilot, who was flying as a passenger aboard a flight from Charlotte to Tampa, was unknowingly videoed texting on his smartphone as the plane was taking off. That happens to be an FAA violation that the pilot should be aware of. The pilot doesn’t work for American Airlines,…
Polish Airline Cancels Flights After Hacker Attack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Poland’s LOT airline has been forced to cancel around 10 foreign and domestic flights after hackers attacked its computers. Airline spokesman Adrian Kubicki said the hacker attack temporarily paralyzed LOT’s computers at Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin airport on Sunday, disrupting the processing…
FBI investigating Twitter airline threats with Gregory Evans
ATLANTA — The FBI is actively trying to find those responsible for recent online airline bomb threats. On Saturday, two planes were escorted to the airport by NORAD jets to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after someone made threats on Twitter. Both planes were searched and no explosives were found. The…
FBI investigating Twitter airline threats with Gregory Evans
ATLANTA — The FBI is actively trying to find those responsible for recent online airline bomb threats. On Saturday, two planes were escorted to the airport by NORAD jets to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after someone made threats on Twitter. Both planes were searched and no explosives were found. The…
Can Your Facebook Profile Help You With Airline Travel?
A passenger apparently proved that you can use your Facebook profile as valid identification to get through airport security. Zach Klein, co-founder of video site Vimeo and current CEO of DIY.org, recently shared via his Twitter account an instance during his air travel on Sunday, where he used his Facebook account in lieu of his ID….
TSA wants a firm to supply it twice a week with complete airline flight data
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: airport_aviation_security TSA has issued a solicitation to prospective vendors who can supply complete airline industry flight data — including airline names, flight numbers, itinerary variations, identifiers, times of flight sectors and many other data elements — on a twice-a-week basis. Homepage position: 10 read more…
Former airline employee who led drug smuggling enterprise gets life
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: JFK International Airport A former American Airlines baggage handler who instigated a drug smuggling ring using hidden compartments in aircraft cargo holds, wings and ceilings will serve a life sentence in federal prison. Victor D’Costa Bourne, 37, received the life sentence on…
Privacy assessment discloses that TSA is gathering frequent flier data about airline passengers
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: airport_aviation_security Image Caption: Relaxing in loungefor frequent fliers DHS has unveiled the details of 15 separate “privacy impact assessments” of some of the department’s management systems and databases which its privacy office has issued between March and May of 2012, including one that reveals that…
Suspect Detection System’s Cogito interrogation system has screened airline employees
Top Priority Sector: airport_aviation_security Image Caption: A Cogitomobile unit Suspect Detection Systems Inc., a developer of counter-terror and crime prevention technology, announced on July 16 that several thousand aviation employees of a major American airline have been screened utilizing the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry… View full…
Privacy czar fears new airline security program could involve racial profiling
— Canada’s privacy watchdog is concerned a new security plan to closely eye the behaviour of air passengers could amount to racial profiling. View full post on could security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
