Our picksRIP Cyber Coordinator: An obituary; aviation cybersecurity; Telegram security, and more

Why aviation cybersecurity needs to level up (Brian Prentice, Paul Mee, Brink)
Many of the biggest players in the aviation industry have extensive cybersecurity in place to defend against hackers, but is that enough? The answer is simple: no.

Fake Facebook profiles and online lies multiply in hours after Santa Fe school shooting (Drew Harwell, Washington Post)
In the first hours after the Texas school shooting that left at least 10 dead Friday, online hoaxers moved quickly to spread a viral lie, creating fake Facebook accounts with the suspected shooter’s name and a doctored photo showing him wearing a “Hillary 2016” hat.

Houston-area leaders seek ways to stem investor buyouts of flooded homes (by David Hunn, Houston Chronicle)
So far, they lament, none of the $10 billion approved by Congress for long-term flood recovery in Texas has made it to local governments.

I’ve covered gun violence for years. The solutions aren’t a big mystery. (German Lopez, Vox)
America can prevent shootings. But it has to come to grips with the problem.

Russian-speaking hackers behind attacks on MyEtherWallet, Amazon DNS: report (Steven Melendez, Fast Company)
Native speakers of Russian were likely involved in a sophisticated hack that redirected traffic to Amazon’s Route 53 DNS service last month in order to steal funds from users of MyEtherWallet, a tool for managing the cryptocurrency ethereum, according to a report from security firm RiskIQ.

Is Telegram secure? French terror arrest raises new questions about messaging app (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)
It’s not clear that French police cracked the app’s encryption. But ISIS and other user groups are becoming wary.

National parks report on climate change finally released, uncensored (Elizabeth Shogren, Reveal)
Backing away from attempts at censorship, the National Park Service on Friday released a report charting the risks to national parks from sea level rise and storms.

RIP Cyber Coordinator: An obituary (Jason Healey, Cipher Brief)
Rest in peace, Cyber Coordinator. The White House’s Special Assistant to the President and Cyber Coordinator has now been eliminated, apparently ending (or more likely pausing) a two-decade history. It will widely be reckoned as a hideous mistake but not perhaps the one which most needs our immediate attention.

Faked news: How a Muslim “sex mob” hoax led to a gruesome murder (Josephine Huetlin, Daily Beast)
Jan and Irina were famous in Frankfurt as victims of Muslim migrant sex fiends. But it was all a lie. Now Irina’s dead, and Jan’s been arrested for her brutal murder.