Cybersecurity lacking at most of the world’s major airports

guest · Jan 31, 2020

Cybersecurity lacking at most of the world’s major airports
January 30, 2020
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/sec...lacking-at-most-of-the-worlds-major-airports/

When it comes to cybersecurity Amsterdam, Helsinki and Dublin were ranked the three safest airports by Immuniweb, but overall these facilities fared poorly when it came to protecting their websites, mobile platforms and systems.

The study found 97 of the world’s 100 largest airports have have security risks related to vulnerable web and mobile applications, misconfigured public cloud, dark web exposure or code repositories leaks.
Twenty-four airports received a failing F. This means exploitable and publicly known security vulnerabilities were found.

When it came to securing email only 32 of the 147 email servers properly implemented SSL/TLS, 44 servers had poorly implemented the protocol and 48 percent do not support SSL/TLS encryption at all leaving them open to Man-in-the-Middle attacks and having traffic intercepted.

“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,” said Ilia Kolochenko, CEO and founder of ImmuniWeb.
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Immuniweb: State of Cybersecurity at Top 100 Global Airports

guest · May 14, 2020

Report reveals inadequate cyber security at Schiphol Airport
May 13, 2020
https://www.computerweekly.com/news...inadequate-cyber-security-at-Schiphol-airport

The cyber security of border controls carried out by the Dutch Royal Military Police at Schiphol is inadequate and not future-proof, according to a report.

Research carried out by the Dutch Court of Audit (Algemene Rekenkamer), found that security tests on the IT systems hardly ever take place, if at all. It also said the software of two IT systems is operational without the required approval, and that IT systems are not connected to the detection capacity of the Ministry of Defence and Schiphol itself.

With almost 80 million passengers a year, Schiphol is not only the most important airport in the Netherlands, but also an important gateway to Europe.
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The Court of Audit’s examination shows that the operation of cyber security measures is not functioning as it should.
However, two of the three border control IT systems have not been found to be adequately protected against cyber attacks. The passport counter system and the self-service system did not go through the Ministry of Defence’s approval procedure to establish this.
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