Hackers 'take over Boeing 757' as it’s sitting on the runway, without the pilots realising


Olde Hornet

Well-Known Member
Hackers 'take over Boeing 757' as it’s sitting on the runway, without the pilots realizing

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hackers-...unway-without-pilots-realising-130313900.html


Security researchers from America’s Homeland Security were able to remotely ‘hack’ a Boeing 757 while it sat on the runway, without the pilots being aware.

Boeing has played down the hack at Atlantic City Airport in 2016, with a spokesman saying, ‘I’m not afraid to fly.’

Homeland Security cyber investigator Robert Hickey said, ‘We got the aeroplane on September 19, 2016.



 
Back
Top