How to Spot an Unsafe Airport
Monday, March 2, 2020
Security experts were alarmed to learn that 66 out of 100 airports were exposed on the Dark Web. This finding is the result of a recent cybersecurity study conducted by ImmuniWeb, a provider of attack surface management and threat intelligence services.
The firm examined The State of Cybersecurity at Top 100 Global Airports and found myriads of vulnerabilities. Its researchers discovered that 13 airports had data leaks or exposure at a critical risk level, which the company defines as a “recent leak of highly confidential data (e.g. PII, PHI, IDs, financial records, plaintext passwords for production systems, etc.).”
ImmuniWeb scrutinized the world’s Top 100 Airports, as voted by air travelers in the 2018/2019 World Airport Survey of Skytrax, the organizer of the World Airport Awards. Read Full Article
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