For
years, hackers have been warning that passenger jets are vulnerable
to cyber-attacks. Airlines and plane manufacturers have largely
ignored the risks, but recent events are leading German authorities
and pilots to take the threats extremely seriously.
The
officials from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) were not at
all happy about what they were hearing. An unshaven 32-year-old from
Spain, his hair pulled back in a ponytail, was talking about cockpit
computers and their weaknesses and security loopholes. Specifically,
he was telling the EASA officials how he had managed to buy original
parts from aviation suppliers on Ebay for just a few hundred dollars.
His goal was to simulate the data exchange between current
passenger-jet models and air-traffic controllers on the ground in
order to search for possible backdoors. His search was successful.
Very successful.
As
Isis surges ahead and the Syrian regime teeters on the brink of
collapse, our Middle East correspondent, winner of the 2015 Orwell
prize for journalism, reports on the deadly struggle for dominance in
the region
Bombshell-
Head of The Russian Military Intelligence, Colonel-General Igor
Sergun, accuses the US and its allies of creating the transnational
“Islamist” terrorist network.
Chief
of the GRU military intelligence service gave a speech on the global
fight on terror and international security in Moscow recently. The
Colonel-General who is in charge of Intelligence for the Russian
armed forces and matters relating to espionage, gave a rare public
speech outlining his view. He outlined the risks of the islamist
terrorist threat, calling it a Western creation which has global
objectives.
Media
watchdog has threatened RT with statutory sanctions after repeated
breaches of broadcasting regulations on impartiality
Thousands
of Rohingya Muslims are stuck in conditions like these on boats in
South-East Asia waters
Navy
ships from two countries scoured South-East Asian waters Friday for
boats believed to be carrying thousands of migrants with little food
or water, and a top U.S. diplomat said Myanmar needs to shoulder some
responsibility for the crisis. That's something it has been reluctant
to do.
U.S.
Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Rohingya Muslims
fleeing the predominantly Buddhist nation are risking perilous
journeys and putting their lives in the hands of human traffickers
because "they are in despair and don't see a future" at
home.
They
have been denied citizenship and chased off their own land. They have
little access to education or adequate medical care and cannot move
around freely.
A
high-ranking commander of the foreign forces in Afghanistan says the
Takfiri ISIL terror group is actively recruiting militants in the
war-torn country amid its ongoing terrorist operations in Iraq and
neighboring Syria.
General
John F. Campbell, the commander of the NATO Resolute Support mission
in Afghanistan, told reporters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on
Saturday that ISIL is making use of a sophisticated social media
campaign in order to woo local Taliban militants.
At
least a dozen people have been arrested in the US city of Cleveland
during protests after an officer was cleared of all charges relating
to the killing of an unarmed black couple.
"They
are institutionalizing sexual violence," Bangura said of the
Islamic State. "The brutalization of women and girls is central
to their ideology."
Islamic
State militants have killed at least 400 people in Syria's ancient
city of Palmyra, mostly women and children, Syrian state television
said Sunday, citing residents.
According
to Reuters, opposition activists on social media claimed that
hundreds of bodies were in the streets of the city.
"The
terrorists have killed more than 400 people.. and mutilated their
bodies, under the pretext that they cooperated with the government
and did not follow orders," a Palmyra resident told Syria's
state news agency.
State
employees were among hundreds killed in the massacre. Among them was
the head of nursing department at the hospital and all her family.
The
US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has ordered a
review of cooperation between the National Security Agency (NSA) and
the German intelligence agency BND, Bild newspaper reports.
Citing
an unnamed source in US intelligence, Bild says Clapper is unhappy
with Berlin's “inability to contain secret data”. According to
the report, the Bundestag committee on investigating the recent
secret service scandals handed some secret documents to the media.
For
the US it is “more dangerous than what Snowden did,” Bild quoted
the source as saying, referring to former NSA contractor Edward
Snowden’s revelations of worldwide surveillance.
Unused
missiles reportedly have fallen in the hands of Houthi rebels in
Yemen after a Saudi jet fighter was downed on the outskirts of the
capital, Sanaa.
Saudi
Arabia's oil minister has said the country will switch its energy
focus to solar power as the nation envisages an end to fossil fuels,
possibly around 2040-2050, Reuters reports.
"In
Saudi Arabia, we recognise that eventually, one of these days, we are
not going to need fossil fuels, I don't know when, in 2040, 2050...
so we have embarked on a program to develop solar energy," Ali
Al-Naimi told a business and climate conference in Paris, the news
service reports.
"Hopefully,
one of these days, instead of exporting fossil fuels, we will be
exporting gigawatts, electric ones. Does that sound good?"
According
to exit polls revealed on Sunday, opposition candidate Andrzej Duda
won Poland's run-off presidential election.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.