SECURITY NEWS

Leonardo and IIT (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia): join for the development of new security applications in the space and emergency sectors Genoa

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Apr 19^th 2021 |

Three Leonardo-IIT joint labs, with 30 dedicated researchers, aim to develop new robotic, supercomputing and AI solut...

Air France signs its 11th three-year agreement on the employment and job security of people with disabilities

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Jan 27^th 2021 |

Air France, which has been committed for over 30 years to the inclusion of workers with disabilities, has just signed...

Ghostly airports but easy security checks: air travel in the time of the virus

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Sun, Apr 26^th 2020 |

Ghostly airports, countless flight cancellations, shops and restaurants closed: the coronavirus has played havoc with air travel in the United States. Following are s...

JetBlue Appoints Christopher Lewless as Vice President, Labor Relations and Tim Rohrbaugh as Vice President, Enterprise Information Security

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Dec 5^th 2019 |

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- JetBlue (Nasdaq: JBLU) today announced the appointment of Christopher Lewless as the comp...

Thales completes acquisition of Gemalto to become a global leader in digital identity and security

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Apr 4^th 2019 |

Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) has today completed the acquisition of Gemalto (Euronext Amsterdam and Paris: GTO), creat...

Safran steps up its cybersecurity expertise

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Nov 22^nd 2018 |

From Factory 4.0 to connected aircraft, the digital transformation of the aerospace sector brings with it a greater risk of cyberattacks and data breaches. To stay protected from these threats, Safran is recruiting cy...

Airbus technologies take the spotlight at one of the world’s largest defence and security exhibitions

DEFENCE | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Jun 20^th 2018 |

Paris, 19 June 2018,Meeting today’s defence and security challenges requires increasingly connected solutions, ...

Heathrow probes how security data found on London street

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Sun, Oct 29^th 2017 |

Heathrow Airport said Sunday it has launched an internal investigation after a memory stick containing extensive security information was found on a London street by ...

No laptop ban as US says all airlines have raised security

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Sat, Jul 22^nd 2017 |

All 180 airlines serving the United States have taken the security steps needed to avoid being forced to implement inflight bans on laptop computers, the Department o...

Chicago airport security under fire over United fiasco

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Sat, Apr 15^th 2017 |

As United Airlines struggles to recover from the public relations disaster sparked when a passenger was violently removed from a flight in Chicago, the airport securi...

Canada ramps up airline security measures

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Tue, Apr 11^th 2017 |

Canada's transport minister on Tuesday announced stepped-up security measures on some international flights to the country, acknowledging a "risk" that led to the United States banning certain personal electronics in...

Australia tightens airport security, screens laptops

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Mar 31^st 2017 |

Australia said Friday it will increase security checks for flights from some Middle East airports, but stopped short of implementing the laptop ban introduced by the ...

Man shot dead in Paris airport security scare

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Sat, Mar 18^th 2017 |

Troops at Paris' Orly airport on Saturday shot dead a man who tried to grab a soldier's weapon, triggering a major security scare that shut down the airport and left thousands of travellers stranded.Nobody was hurt i...

Boeing names Leanne Caret Defense, Space & Security President and CEO

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, Mar 1^st 2016 |

The Boeing board of directors has elected Leanne Caret president and chief executive officer of the company's Defense, Space & Security business effective March 1. She...

Unique border security solution for short, medium and long-range data transmission launched

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Thu, Nov 20^th 2014 |

Airbus Defence and Space has launched its new solution for transmitting mission-critical data from remote border secu...