CYBER terrorism is threatening civil aviation. “This is something that is imminent and extremely worrying” an Israeli source told i-HLS.
According to Aviation Week a demonstration at a computer hacking conference in Amsterdam in April 2013 brought aviation CYBERsecurity into the public eye. At the so-called “Hack in the Box” annual conference, security consultant Hugo Teso described how an Android application for a smartphone could in theory be used to remotely control an aircraft’s flight path by exploiting weaknesses in the onboard aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (Acars) data link and the flight management system.
http://i-hls.com/2013/08/fear-in-the-skies-hacking-aircraft/
According to Aviation Week a demonstration at a computer hacking conference in Amsterdam in April 2013 brought aviation CYBERsecurity into the public eye. At the so-called “Hack in the Box” annual conference, security consultant Hugo Teso described how an Android application for a smartphone could in theory be used to remotely control an aircraft’s flight path by exploiting weaknesses in the onboard aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (Acars) data link and the flight management system.
http://i-hls.com/2013/08/fear-in-the-skies-hacking-aircraft/