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The drone no-fly zone around airports has been extended to protect aircraft at Royal Air Force bases and airports. The new legislation bans drones from being flown within five kilometres (3.1 miles) of the end of a runway without permission. Previously, only a Read More …
Flights departing from Stansted Airport are operating as normal after a large fire broke out on a bus. The airport had cancelled all departing flights until midnight on Friday after an electrical fault caused the passenger shuttle bus outside the Read More …
Russia’s Ministry of Transport said on Saturday that Moscow would demand an official explanation from Britain for why a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane had been subjected to a search at Heathrow airport on Friday. The Russian embassy in Britain complained Read More …
A woman passed through an electronic border gate using her cousin’s passport, it has been revealed. Inspectors witnessed the apparently unintentional ‘spoofing’ during observations at Stansted Airport in Essex. The watchdog report said: ‘A passenger managed to gain entry via Read More …
Legacy technologies pose a threat to the European Union’s telecommunications infrastructure, a study by cybersecurity agency ENISA warns. 2G/ 3G mobile networks worldwide still depend on SS7 and Diameter for controlling communications (routing voice calls and data) as well as sets of Read More …
Australia’s Parliament has passed the Security of Critical Infrastructure Bill in what the government called a bid to protect the electricity, gas, ports, and water sectors from “foreign involvement” that could lead to espionage, sabotage, and coercion, and giving ministers Read More …
U.S. planemaker Boeing Co “detected a limited intrusion of malware” that affected “a small number of systems,” and said certain media reports on the disruptions were “overstated and inaccurate,” a company vice president said on Wednesday. Linda Mills, VP of Read More …
Threats from Russia and organised crime are the focus of a new national security strategy for the UK. In what the prime minister has called a “fusion doctrine”, the plan will combine intelligence and the Army with economics and diplomacy Read More …
Police officers should be prevented from accessing people’s personal mobile phone data without a search warrant, a privacy campaign group has said. At least 26 police forces in England and Wales have begun using new technology to extract data from Read More …
Suspicious packages have been sent to at least four military bases in the Washington DC region, according to US media reports. The FBI, Secret Service, Hazmat and an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit were all deployed to the National Defense University Read More …
