FireEye analyst: Trade tensions with China will hike cybersecurity risks for aviation sector

Heightened tensions between China and the Trump administration over trade policies will likely drive up cyber attacks on a wider range targets affecting aviation, in part because of the industry's close ties with the military and its symbolism as a port of entry to the country, according to a chief analyst at security firm FireEye.

“I do have some concern that trade sanctions, tensions, those sort of issues, are going to up the level of threat in the sense that...