Can your flight be hacked?

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

https://www.ft.com/content/2e416eca-4e3d-11e8-ac41-759eee1efb74

By Peggy Hollinger
Financial Times
Oct 16, 2018

It took Robert Hickey and his team of researchers just two days to do what 
the aerospace industry had insisted was nigh impossible.

On September 21 2016, the US Department of Homeland Security official 
hacked into the systems of a Boeing 757 passenger aircraft parked in the 
airport in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was, he said last year, "a 
remote, non-co-operative penetration" without insider help or being 
onboard, using "typical stuff that could get through security".

Mr Hickey waited more than a year to drop his bombshell at a cyber 
security conference in Virginia and even then he gave scant detail about 
what had been accessed and how -- for obvious security reasons.

But his revelation has raised serious questions about aviation's exposure 
to cyber attack as aircraft, airports and air traffic control systems 
become increasingly reliant on digital systems.

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