Access To Major Airport's Security System Offered on Dark Web for $10 (axios.com)

Researchers at McAfee found remote access to a major airport's security system available on the dark web for $10. From a report: The hacked access came from an online market for remote desktop protocol (RDP) accounts, which sell access to hacked accounts in all kinds of systems. "There's a lot of discussion about sophisticated nation-state attacks, but this was a really cheap way anyone could get access to something," Raj Samani, chief scientist at McAfee, told Axios. The RDP market isn't typically about purchasing access to systems to actually use the systems. Instead, buyers pay between $3 and $19 for access to machines based on bandwidth. Those systems are often used for their resources rather than their information.

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Re:Not too surprised

[dgatwood]

Call me "not surprised" after passing umpteen machines in the security line with unprotected USB slots. One good boot and...

Next up: Girls Gone Wild, Airport Edition. See topless teens as only millimeter-wave scanners can see them. See gregarious grandmas with guns. And everything in between.

The only way to prevent people from seeing naked pictures of yourself is to never allow them to be taken in the first place. This includes the scanners at the airport.