Boeing Vulnerabilities Shown

Remember last week when I told you that the FAA said that Boeing was vulnerable? Well that happened. A security expert named Chris Roberts was on a United Airlines flight when he tweeted “Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM. ? Shall we start playing with EICAS messages? “PASS OXYGEN ON” Anyone? :)”  This message essentially translates to the fact that Roberts could get the passenger oxygen masks to deploy. After Roberts tweeted, he was removed from the plane by the FBI and questioned but was later released and allowed to take another flight.  Apparently, the company Roberts works for has been telling Airbus and Boeing for quite some time that their aircrafts were more than vulnerable to attack. Roberts said that he has tried to connect to flight systems 15 to 20 times and has seen all sorts of things, including the flight management system. At the time, he has not been deemed a security risk as is still allowed to fly. This just goes to show that if you even remotely know what you are doing, you can hack all sorts of things. That is a scary thought.

http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-pulls-computer-security-expert-off-flight-after-he-tweets-about-hacking-its-systems/