There’s now another reason to be aerophobic after a German hacker demonstrated how to remotely hijack and bring down an airplane using an app for the Android phone.
The presentation called ‘Aircraft Hacking: Practical Aero Series' by Hugo Teso has become the highlight of the Hack In The Box security conference in Amsterdam on April 10-11, terrifying most of those, who attended it.
Teso, who currently works as a security consultant at the German n.runs IT-company, has used his experience of being a commercial pilot to create the software, which grants him full control of a passenger aircraft.
It took the researcher three years to come up with the PlaneSploit app for Android based on his SIMON code, which proved that – despite the tightened security in airports and on-board – air carriers are completely defenseless when it comes cyber-attacks.
Teso’s presentation revealed that the Automated Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), which is a surveillance technology for tracking planes, is unencrypted and unauthenticated.
He said that the possible attacks on this system can “range from passive attacks (eavesdropping) to active attacks (message jamming, replaying, injection)”.
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