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FAA, GAO … Please Read My Book!

June 22, 2015 – 6:00 am – … and my articles, columns, etc. about the dangers of connecting information systems to control systems. The GAO (US Government Accountability Office) released an April 2015 report, GAO-15-370, on the cybersecurity of air traffic control and avionics systems, with the title “Air Traffic…
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Aviation Security

June 16, 2014 – 6:00 am – The loss of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flight MH370 has raised general interest in the issue of aircraft system security in addition to the usual focus on aircraft safety. While I did spend some time on the security of avionics in my book “Engineering Safe and Secure Software Systems”…
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Hacking Avionics Systems

April 22, 2013 – 6:00 am – A researcher has come up with exploits, as described in Zeljka Zorz’s April 10, 2013 blog post “Hacking airplanes with an Android phone,” which enable someone using a smart phone with particular apps to take over the flight management systems of aircraft … see…
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