Airplanes Vulnerable to Hacking, Says U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Airplanes Vulnerable to Hacking, Says U.S. Department of Homeland Security

By CircleID Reporter
November 15, 2017, 6:03 pm PST Views: 7,478 Add Comment

Researchers have been able to successfully demonstrate a commercial aircraft can be remotely hacked. Calvin Biesecker reporting in Avionics reports: “A team of government, industry and academic officials successfully demonstrated that a commercial aircraft could be remotely hacked in a non-laboratory setting last year, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said Wednesday at the 2017 CyberSat Summit in Tysons Corner, Virginia. [U.S. Department of Homeland Security aviation program manager says] ‘We got the airplane on Sept. 19, 2016. Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration ... [which] means I didn’t have anybody touching the airplane, I didn’t have an insider threat. I stood off using typical stuff that could get through security and we were able to establish a presence on the systems of the aircraft.”

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