Airport breach a sign for IT industry to think security, not money

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2378585/data-protection/airport-breach-a-sign-for-it-industry-to-think-security-not-money.html

By Antone Gonsalves
CSO Online
June 26, 2014

The two U.S. airports that had their computers compromised by an unknown 
group of hackers is a wake up call that America's best IT talent needs to 
focus less on money and more on national security, an expert says.

The Center of Internet Security (CIS), a government-endorsed nonprofit 
that helps states with cybersecurity, said in its recently released report 
that it was notified in the summer of 2013 of advanced persistent attacks 
(APTs) against four U.S. airports.

The CIS later learned that the same attackers were targeting eight other 
airports.

Because there's no financial gain from going after airports, "the logical 
point of these attacks is to be able to support taking down or controlling 
critical systems in time of war or conflict," Murray Jennex, a San Diego 
State University professor and former systems engineer at the San Onofre 
nuclear power plant in California, said.

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