https://www.ft.com/content/2e416eca-4e3d-11e8-ac41-759eee1efb74
By Peggy Hollinger
Financial Times
Oct 16, 2018
It took Robert Hickey and his team of researchers just two days to do what
the aerospace industry had insisted was nigh impossible.
On September 21 2016, the US Department of Homeland Security official
hacked into the systems of a Boeing 757 passenger aircraft parked in the
airport in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was, he said last year, "a
remote, non-co-operative penetration" without insider help or being
onboard, using "typical stuff that could get through security".
Mr Hickey waited more than a year to drop his bombshell at a cyber
security conference in Virginia and even then he gave scant detail about
what had been accessed and how -- for obvious security reasons.
But his revelation has raised serious questions about aviation's exposure
to cyber attack as aircraft, airports and air traffic control systems
become increasingly reliant on digital systems.
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