Originally Posted by
Mr_App
With the biggest and successful cyber attack in Australian History taking place this afternoon, Optus, it got me thinking, how vulnerable is Aviation? Two successful attempts in the last year, Nine Network and now Optus.
Air Services would be a clear target. With Russia and China seeking to punish Australia over standing up for itself, only a matter of time around who is next.
You are more at risk from a Nigerian Prince than Russia or China stealing your identity. Don't click on forwarded links and respond to emails asking for login details and such and you will be 99% safe as a general member of the public.
If the majors did manage to crash Airservices or the BoM site it would not be noticed, their own systems crash and fail all on their own. The bigger risk to air safety at present is the move to over-reliance on single system navigation, GNSS, it can be turned off, jammed, hacked, whatever.