News of the Cyber World

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The main reason why I post this article on an airline company is that it might be closely related to the triple cyber attack that took place last December. Then the same company had several issues and even canceled and delayed hundreds of flights, only to realize that the FAA's and Canada's NOTAM systems and the Royal Mail's got hacked. Only the Royal Mail ended up admitting they had been hacked.

Southwest Airlines resumes operations after tech issues halt departures

Southwest Airlines resumed all departures Tuesday morning after "intermittent technology issues" briefly impacted its operations.

Southwest told FOX Business that the airline was forced to temporarily pause flight activity in order to "work through data connection issues resulting from a firewall failure."

According to the Dallas-based carrier, a vendor-supplied firewall went down early Tuesday morning and as a result, "connection to some operational data was unexpectedly lost."

Southwest said its employees worked quickly to minimize disruptions, which amounted to more than 1,700 delayed flights as of 11:30 a.m. ET, according to FlightAware.

Just after 11 a.m. ET, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a tweet that Southwest's temporary pause on all departures had lifted, and that service resumed.

The update from the FAA came roughly a half hour after the agency first announced that the carrier "requested the FAA pause the airline’s departures."

Southwest is still trying to repair its reputation after an operational meltdown in December led to nearly 17,000 canceled flights and displaced millions of passengers during the holidays.

Now they should explain to us  why the FAA had to make such a request. I mean, it should have been the other way around, where Southwest informs the FAA they will be pausing their operations for any valid reason. But let us simply say that the FAA was helping the airline somehow by publishing such tweets. Anyway, it should have sufficed to publish that on the SW website or its Twitter account. Just saying.