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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: 1) by yarp on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:50PM

    by yarp (2665) on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:50PM (#171557)

    I'd read the story of sparks being caused by clothing, but never twigged that it would have been exacerbated due to entry and exit of a vehicle while a pump was running automatically.

    Still, I wonder why we still have the signs up on forecourts. It's not helped that mobile phone manufacturers also give the same warning in their user manuals (not that anybody reads them).