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Android app wreaks havoc with air traffic

'll Need more tests but there is nothing to worry about. The planes become targets for cyber-attacks. The authorities for the safety of the flight run for cover.

Android app wreaks havoc with air traffic

The news comes from Amsterdam, where he has just finished The hack in the box, an event on digital security. The German researcher Hugo Teso, who is also a pilot, has asserted that a hacker can hack into the security software of a plane and give orders to the aircraft.

Teso has worked in the past three years, created by Simon, a system of codes directly from an App Android baptized PlaneSploit. For their demonstration, the researcher used a flight simulator and has highlighted the possibility of an impact on speed, altitude and direction of flight, to alter what the pilot sees on the monitor service, to change course, to turn off lights on the fuselage by sending radio signals to the system board. Scenario distressing but useful to ascertain that the safety systems on board do not authenticate correctly the sources of the received signal.

The system of hacking, by the will of its creator, has a limitation that makes it effective only for flight simulators. Are ongoing contacts with European and American authorities for flight safety aimed at raising the standards of safety.

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