How to hack an airliner

[steve58]

http://blogs.computerworld.com/cybercrime-and-hacking/22036/hacker-uses-android-remotely-attack-and-hijack-airplane

Aircraft Hacking: Practical Aero Series presented by Hugo Teso, a security consultant at n.runs in Germany. According to the abstract, "This presentation will be a practical demonstration on how to remotely attack and take full control of an aircraft, exposing some of the results of my three years research on the aviation security field.

So with Ebay, a smart phone and a little know-how, you too can be a remote pilot.  In this day and age, why are airliners still so vulnerable?  Its good to know that updated, secured software will be rolled out over the next 20 years!

...and it seems some else did this a year ago.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/12/hacking-in-flight-airplane-did-that-year-ago-hacker-says/?intcmp=features

[LongBlade]

I heard that on the news this morning.

Sounds like a bit of a firewall is in order.

[TheCommandTent]

This is disturbing to hear but at least we are hearing about it like this and not after someone used it to kill alot of people.

[Longdan]

I can tell you that some funny and not so funny things have happened and the people investigating
do not want to release the particulars to the general public.  Some dickweeds are trying to make them
release some investigatory results but for the moment they are not being generally discussed.

[eyebiter]

Perhaps the industry wide trend toward glass cockpits wasn't such a great idea after all?