i had to clean my eyes twice to check if i was seeing double....a hacker used a phone app to control the systems of an aircraft?...technology has gone haywire...well for those who don't know i am a computer science student and for this kind of thing to happen...it's a big deal.
He says he has created an app that can take over a plane’s computers, giving the phone and its user total control of the aircraft.
Hugo Teso, 30, who is also a trained commercial pilot, claims he can make an airliner ‘dance to his tune’ by using the technology – which would not be picked up by security checks.
Speaking at the Hack In The Box Conference in Amsterdam, he said that after four years of research he was able to subvert the flight management systems (FMS) found on most aircraft.
To test the technology, Mr Teso built a simulator from spare plane parts he bought on eBay, which ran on many of the systems that are used on commercial aircraft.
According to Help Net Security, the system works by infiltrating radio broadcasts between aircraft and air traffic control, and then using a second communication system to send malicious messages that could ‘take full control of the plane’ or indirectly affect the pilot’s behaviour by making cockpit lights flash, for instance.
Mr Teso said that it was just a ‘proof of concept’ and that it would not necessarily interfere with real flight systems.
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