Once there was a saying "If it ain't Boeing, I'm not going " Back then, Airbus had been plagued by issues with its fly-by-wire control systems, which (at the time) could override the pilot's inputs and fly a plane into the ground.
Fast foward a few decades and Airbus's systems are pretty reliable, since they've been forced to allow that their algorithms aren't always smarter than the pilots (aviation regulations are written in blood, as another saying goes).
… Now it's Boeing that's in the news every few days because of quality-control issues.
The thing about taking shortcuts, cutting oversight, and squeezing pennies in aviation is that the problems don't always surface right away.
You think you got away with it, but then years or decades later stuff starts falling off b/c of wrong fasteners, shoddy work, poor design, etc. You might never win back that public trust, even if your overall safety record is still good.
📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #06/2024 is out! It includes the following and much more:
➝ 🔓 #Juniper Support Portal Exposed Customer Device Info
➝ 🔓 🇹🇭 Major #DataBreach in #Thailand Exposes Personal Data of 20 Million Elderly Citizens
➝ 🔓 🇫🇷 Millions at risk of fraud after massive health data hack in #France
➝ 🔓 🇺🇸 #Verizon employee inadvertently leaks data of 63 thousand colleagues
➝ 🔓 🖥️ #AnyDesk Hacked: Revokes Passwords, Certificates in Response
➝ 🔓 🇺🇸 #Clorox says #cyberattack caused $49 million in expenses
➝ 💸 📈 #Ransomware Payments Exceed $1 Billion in 2023, Hitting Record High After 2022 Decline
➝ 🇺🇸 💰 US offers $10 million for tips on #Hive ransomware leadership
➝ 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 #China-backed Volt Typhoon hackers have lurked inside US #criticalinfrastructure for ‘at least five years’
➝ 🇨🇳 🇳🇱 Chinese Hackers Exploited #FortiGate Flaw to Breach Dutch #Military Network
➝ 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 #Iran accelerates cyber ops against #Israel from chaotic start
➝ 🇧🇾 🇺🇸 Belarusian National Linked to BTC-e Faces 25 Years for $4 Billion #Crypto Money Laundering
➝ 🇭🇰 💸 #Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with #deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
➝ 🇺🇦 #ukraine is Creating a ‘Cyber Diplomat’ Post
➝ 🇩🇰 #Denmark orders schools to stop sending student data to #Google
➝ 🇪🇺 ⚖️ #EU proposes criminalizing AI-generated child sexual abuse and deepfakes
➝ 🇳🇱 💰 #Uber Fined 10 Million Euros by Dutch Data Regulator
➝ 🇺🇸 🛂 US to Roll Out Visa Restrictions on People Who Misuse #Spyware to Target Journalists, Activists
➝ 🦠 💬 Raspberry Robin #Malware Upgrades with #Discord Spread and New Exploits
➝ 🦠 🍎 New #macOS Backdoor Linked to Prominent Ransomware Groups
🦠 🪥 Surprising 3 Million Hacked #Toothbrushes Story Goes Viral—Is It True?
➝ 🇨🇦 🐬 #Canada declares #FlipperZero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown
➝ 🩹 #Ivanti: Patch new Connect Secure auth bypass bug immediately
➝ 🐛 📍 Security flaw in a popular smart helmet allowed silent location tracking
➝ 🩹 Critical Patches Released for New Flaws in #Cisco, #Fortinet, #VMware Products
➝ 🐛 🐧 Critical Boot Loader #Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All #Linux Distros
➝ 🐛 ✈️ #Airbus App Vulnerability Introduced Aircraft Safety Risk
➝ 🩹 #QNAP Patches High-Severity Bugs in QTS, Qsync Central
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📚 This week's recommended reading is: "x86 Software Reverse-Engineering, Cracking, and Counter-Measure" by Stephanie Domas & Christopher Domas
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Airbus advertising campaign ideas:
"Our planes don't fall apart in the air."
"Our planes have all their parts."
"We don't charge microtransactions for plane components."
"The 'A' in Airbus shows our QA safety rating."
" Airbus, we can afford bolts"
" Airbus, because even the alphabet knows they Boeing is second best"
For all the disparagement of the #European way of doing #business (especially from international organisations based in the USA), what we can see in the #aerospace sector is that #Airbus are now the dominant manufacturer.... especially now that #Boeing's longer term problems have been compounded by their #737Max difficulties.
[And before you say, ah yes by Airbus get masses of state aid, so does, albeit in different form, Boeing]
SAF is produced through processes like Fischer-Tropsch which converts #biomass to liquid #fuel or hydroprocessing which treats feedstocks with #hydrogen. Recent tests saw #Airbus and #Boeing aircraft complete 100% SAF flights, opening certification for airlines to blend more SAF. #CleanFuel#FlyGreen#ClimateImpact#ZeroCarbon
Im Rahhmen meines Schulpraktikums habe ich Wingtips an Helikoptern kennengelernt. Dieses Blogpostinng arbeitet die Funktion von Wingtips an Helikoptern und den Unterschied zwischen Winglets und Wingtips heraus.
Nach dem Beinahe-Unglück der 737 MAX 9 nimmt die US-Luftfahrtbehörde FAA jetzt auch eine ältere Version der Boeing 737 ins Visier. Es handelt sich um ein Vorgängermodell mit größerer Reichweite.