Our picksHacking planes’ landing gear; American Samoa is sinking; slowing down fast 5G, and more

The radio navigation planes use to land safely is insecure and can be hacked (Dan Goodin, Arstechnica)
Radios that sell for $600 can spoof signals planes use to find runways.

Earthquake in 2009 intensified American Samoa’s rising sea levels (Brendan Bane, AGU)
The 2009, magnitude-8.1 Samoa earthquake dealt a great deal of damageto the Samoan Islands: Tsunami waves as high as 14 meters (46 feet) wiped out multiple villages, claiming nearly 200 lives and severely damaging water and electrical systems. 
New researchreveals the damage is likely to continue in the island Tutuila, also known as American Samoa. A new study shows the island is now sinking, a product of post-earthquake tectonic shifting that will likely continue for decades.

Sinking feeling: Philippine cities facing ‘slow-motion disaster’ (Joshua Melvin, AFP)
When Mary Ann San Jose moved to Sitio Pariahan more than two decades ago, she could walk to the local chapel. Today, reaching it requires a swim.
The main culprit is catastrophic subsidence caused by groundwater being pumped out from below, often via unregulated wells for homes, factories, and farms catering to a booming population and growing economy.
The steady sinking of coastal towns and islets like Pariahan in the northern Philippines has caused Manila Bay’s brackish water to pour inland and displace thousands, posing a greater threat than rising sea levels due to climate change.

Border agent charged with hitting migrant with truck called them “subhuman,” feds say (Pilar Melendez, Daily Beast)
Matthew Bowen’s defense attorney claims his racist tirades are OK because they are ‘part of the agency’s culture.’

Who’s slowing down fast 5G? (Mike Elgan, Computerworld)
Forget America’s opposition to Huawei. The real threat to 5G nirvana lies elsewhere. (Hint: Conspiracy theories are involved.)

Can Congress use fines to pry loose the full Trump-Russia report? (Kia Rahnama, Defense One)
The legal framework governing situations such as this is seldom used and little known.

Cyber Command’s latest VirusTotal upload has been linked to an active attack (Shannon Vavra, Cyberscoop)
The malware sample that U.S. Cyber Command uploaded to VirusTotallast week is still involved in active attacks, multiple security researchers tell CyberScoop.
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab and ZoneAlarm, a software security company run by Check Point Technologies, tell CyberScoop they have linked the malware with APT28, the same hacking group that breached the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election cycle.

Anti-vaxxers target communities battling measles (Lena H. Sun and Ben Guarino, Washington Post)
State and national health officials say groups such as Del Bigtree’s — a former television-producer-turned-activist who often wears a yellow star , similar to those required of Jews in Nazi Germany, to show solidarity with parents ordered to keep unvaccinated children at home — are directly responsible for the measles outbreaks that struck Orthodox communities here and in New York City this year. Through an aggressive social media campaign, pamphleteeringand traveling road shows that pop up in receptive and often insular communities, officials say, the anti-vaccine movement has produced pockets of unvaccinated children where the highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease can catch fire.