DHS Team Hacked a Boeing 757
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 12/11/2017
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A team of experts led by officials within the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remotely hacked a Boeing 757 airplane. The hack took place at an airport in Atlantic City, New Jersey in September 2016. It was part of a controlled experiment and pilots had no knowledge that the team was trying to hack the plane.
The team had no physical access to interact with any system on the plane and all was done remotely via "radio frequency communications." They said it took them only two days to come up with the hack and execute it.
The experiment was made public last Wednesday, during the 2017 CyberSat Summit in Tysons Corner, Virginia, by Robert Hickey, aviation program manager within the Cyber Security Division of the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate. While the hack's details and the team's work are classified, Hickey said they used "typical stuff that could get through security."
Boeing has stopped mass-producing the 757 in 2004, but it's still one of the most popular planes in use.
[Source: Bleeping Computer]
מאת Makaristos - נוצר על ידי מעלה היצירה, נחלת הכלל, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4774752
A team of experts led by officials within the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remotely hacked a Boeing 757 airplane. The hack took place at an airport in Atlantic City, New Jersey in September 2016. It was part of a controlled experiment and pilots had no knowledge that the team was trying to hack the plane.
The team had no physical access to interact with any system on the plane and all was done remotely via "radio frequency communications." They said it took them only two days to come up with the hack and execute it.
The experiment was made public last Wednesday, during the 2017 CyberSat Summit in Tysons Corner, Virginia, by Robert Hickey, aviation program manager within the Cyber Security Division of the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate. While the hack's details and the team's work are classified, Hickey said they used "typical stuff that could get through security."
Boeing has stopped mass-producing the 757 in 2004, but it's still one of the most popular planes in use.
[Source: Bleeping Computer]
