Monday, May 18, 2015

Security researcher banned for hacking flight – Exame Informática

On Twitter, Roberts explained that he could bring down the oxygen masks, to have discovered a security flaw. Apparently, the vulnerability lies in the entertainment system board and a housing located under each seat.

FBI details a Robers the interrogation session, where the investigators have stated that it would be able to “explore / gain access to, or hack the system [of entertainment on board ] “, cites the Cnet . During interrogation also, Roberts explained that he could have access to the control of aircraft engine movements and also to monitor the traffic that would be in and out of the cockpit. Was it because of this questioning that Roberts was banned from flying with United Airlines.

In recent times there have been several reports that give account vulnerabilities in the computer systems available on aircraft and that allowed hackers were able to monitor information or even hack the code in order to have access for all operations.

Chris Roberts has said in previous times, which infiltrated the flight network about 15 times, just for observation.

security flaws have been detected in several planes from Boeing and Airbus with Boeing to defend himself by saying that implements the standards of cybersecurity required by the authorities and Airbus to refuse comment on the subject.

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