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Greta75 -> American Airlines Plane got hijack by Hackers (11/14/2017 7:55:32 AM)
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Hackers 'take over Boeing 757' as it’s sitting on the runway, without the pilots realising
Security researchers have shown off alarming hacks where they ‘take over’ cars – but a new demonstration may be the scariest yet.
Security researchers from America’s Homeland Security were able to remotely ‘hack’ a Boeing 757 while it sat on the runway, without the pilots being aware.
Boeing has played down the hack at Atlantic City Airport in 2016, with a spokesman saying, ‘I’m not afraid to fly.’
Homeland Security cyber investigator Robert Hickey said, ‘We got the aeroplane on September 19, 2016.
‘Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration.’
‘I didn’t have anybody touching the aeroplane, I didn’t have an insider threat.
‘I stood off using typical stuff that could get through security and we were able to establish a presence on the systems of the aircraft.’
Boeing says that the hack would only affect specific older aircraft. Many of the details of the hack remain classified, Hickey said.
I just wanna say with all our planes and car seem to be run by electronics rather than mechanical these days. Like many car problems are software virus or break down.
And here we are. It is possible to hijack a plane without a pilot in it and get it to take off on it's own.
OMG, if ISIS gets into this. The world is really screwed.
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