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  • 1.  Interesting News Item: "Hacker Demonstrates Remote Plane Hijacking Using Android App"

    Posted Apr 16, 2013 06:15 AM

    An interesting article....

    Hacker Demonstrates Remote Plane Hijacking Using Android App

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417668,00.asp

    "Using the application, dubbed PlaneSploit, Teso demonstrated how to virtually hijack flight desk computers and feed false navigation information to change the course of a simulated jet, according to Help Net Security, which sat in on Teso's presentation at the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam... What he found was a terrifying ability to make flying machines "dance to his tune," as Help Net Security noted."

    Not quite as scary as it sounds at first:

    "This presentation was based on a PC training simulator and did not reveal potential vulnerabilities on actual flying systems," an EASA statement said. "There are major differences between a PC based training FMs [flight management system] software and an embedded FMS software.....The version Teso used does not include the same overwriting protection and redundancies that certified flight software does, the agency said....The FAA agreed, saying in a statement that it has "determined that the hacking technique described ... does not pose a flight safety concern because it does not work on certified flight hardware."



  • 2.  RE: Interesting News Item: "Hacker Demonstrates Remote Plane Hijacking Using Android App"

    Posted Apr 16, 2013 07:37 AM

    Also see:

    Check your phone: Nations with the most mobile malware
    http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/16/business/world-most-mobile-infected-countries/index.html?hpt=hp_c5

    1. China: 25.5% of mobile devices infected

    2. India: 19.4% of mobile devices infected

    3. Russia: 17.9% of all mobiles infected

    4. United States: 9.8% of mobiles infected

    5. Saudi Arabia: 9.6% of mobile devices infected