"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.

  • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    26 minutes ago

    Oh man, if only there were some kind of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to help protect against this sort of thing…

    • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      58 seconds ago

      I have been really upset that this theoretical governing body had a good chunk of its theoretical work force let go under this fascist regime. If what comes from that is anti trump messaging hacks, then that would be such a wonderful turn of events. It won’t be the only thing, but it may be the best.

  • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    3 hours ago

    It’s probably closer to legality than the Executive branch ordering presidency propaganda there.

  • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    44·
    3 hours ago

    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
      6·
      1 hour ago

      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
        2·
        56 minutes ago

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

    • frosty99c@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      I mean, I love that this happened, but it was at 1 minor US airport and 3 minor Canadian airports (non-TSA). From the article this doesn’t seem like a widespread thing, unfortunately.