A source said that the systems that targeted them at airports do not deal with surveillance traffic and internal coordination of airlines or transportation security.
but Attacks cyber Led to "Prevent public access" To public web domains that report airport wait times and congestion.
The attacks were first reported around 3 a.m. ET when the Airports Authority informed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that the LaGuardia Airport system had been infected.
Systems have been restored at the airport, but other airports across the country have been similarly attacked.
The websites of Des Moines International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Chicago O’Hare International Airport were affected Monday morning.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport reported at approximately 10:30 a.m. ET that its site was back up and that "Operations at the airport Operations were not affected at any time."
Airport saidLos Angeles In a statement to ABC News: "Early this morning, the FlyLAX.com website was partially down".
And"The outage was limited to a segment of the public that deals with the website only, while the internal airport systems were not exposed to danger and there were no operational disturbances."
Engineers and programmers are actively working to fill in the technical vulnerabilities that allowed the attacks and to support the most critical computing infrastructure.
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ABC News reported that some of the world’s largest Airports In the country, on Monday, cyber attacks were carried out by a party inside Russia.
A source said that the systems that targeted them at airports do not deal with surveillance traffic and internal coordination of airlines or transportation security.
but Attacks cyber It “blocked public access” to public web domains that report wait times and congestion at the airport.
The attacks were first reported around 3 a.m. ET when the Airports Authority informed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that the LaGuardia Airport system had been infected.
Systems have been restored at the airport, but other airports across the country have been similarly attacked.
The websites of Des Moines International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Chicago O’Hare International Airport were affected Monday morning.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport reported at approximately 10:30 a.m. ET that its site was operating in reserve and that “operations at the airport were not affected by operations at any time.”
Airport saidLos Angeles In a statement to ABC News: “Early this morning, the FlyLAX.com website was partially down.”
And “the service outage was limited to a segment of the public that deals with the website only, while the internal airport systems were not exposed to danger and there were no operational disturbances.”
Engineers and programmers are actively working to fill in the technical vulnerabilities that allowed the attacks and to support the most critical computing infrastructure.