"Imagine shutting down the government and realizing you forgot to pay cybersecurity."

Cross-posted from https://pawb.social/post/33290507

Airports across North America experienced an unexpected disruption this week after hackers blasted pro-Palestine and anti-Trump messages.

On Tuesday, the public address system at Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania, as well as three across Canada (Kelowna International Airport, Victoria International Airport, and Windsor International Airport), were co-opted by the hackers, according to CNN.

The messages they played included “f**k Netanyahu and Trump” and “free, free Palestine,” as heard via a recording made at Harrisburg International.

  • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    106·
    27 天前

    Gotta love how quickly the security theater of the TSA disappears as soon as a few tech savy folk get angry. Realll secure airport ya have there.

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      27 天前

      I was thinking this is more of a prank than a security threat, but you could actually cause serious problems with malicious announcements over the PA.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        27 天前

        I hope it was an external prank. This is too likely an internal job, which narrows the list if suspects a lot

        • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          14·
          26 天前

          Sometimes all the hacking you really need is to notice the sticky note on an employees desk has the security wifi password written on it.