WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all

WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all

Fears of cyber-hijackings? That's plane crazy, says Dreamliner maker


Black Hat A Black Hat presentation on how to potentially hijack a 787 – by exploiting bugs found in internal code left lying around on a public-facing server – was last night slammed as "irresponsible and misleading" by Boeing.


At the hacking conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Ruben Santamarta, principal security consultant at pen-testing biz IOActive, told attendees he had found bugs in software used aboard the jetliners.


It is important to note that there are essentially three electronic networks on a 787: the first is home to non-critical stuff like the in-flight entertainment system; the second is used by slightly more important applications reserved for crew and maintenance teams; and the third is used by the vital avionics gear that controls the airplane's flight and reads its sensors.


The software Santamarta probed – a crew inform ..

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