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Can you hack an airplane? Brace yourself

The potential for hackers to compromise and control commercial airliners via their Wi-Fi networks made headlines last week. A few readers emailed to ask about the vulnerability of the systems and the likelihood of an attack. It’s probably true that these airline control systems could be maliciously hacked. But it isn’t the sort of news that the General Accounting Office, Federal Aviation Administration, or any airline or aircraft manufacturer wants to publicly acknowledge. Modern airplanes are full of digital screens, file servers, operating systems, big storage drives, multiple networks.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2912372/can-you-hack-an-airplane.html

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