Reports that a cybersecurity expert successfully hacked into an aeroplanes control system from a passenger seat raises many worrying questions for the airline industry. It was once believed that the cockpit network that allows the pilot to control the plane was fully insulated and separate from the passenger network running the in-flight entertainment system. This should make it impossible for a hacker in a. passenger seat to interfere with the course of the flight. This could increase the risk of an ATM security breach compared with the previously held assumption that the system is secure as long as nobody can see it.”]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/how-a-hacker-could-hijack-an-airplane-from-their-seat-1705735617