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Airliners Could be Vulnerable to Hacking

posted by CoolHand on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the who'd-have-thought-this-would-ever-happen dept.

kaszz writes:

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that the computers that control and monitor the aircraft isn't protected enough by on-board firewalls intended to protect avionics from hackers. These could be breached if flight control and entertainment systems use the same wiring and routers had they in turn, been connected to the on-board WiFi. The GAO report authors stated that the affected planes include the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the Airbus A350 and A380. All have advanced cockpits that are wired into the same WiFi system used by passengers.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by WizardFusion on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:12AM

    by WizardFusion (498) on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:12AM (#171516) Journal

    So, its something like...

            Burden < (Probability * Loss)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_negligence [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:29AM (#171522)

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