Aircraft are highly vulnerable to cyber attack: Ky 09/10/2015
Europe’s top aviation safety chief has warned that hackers could maliciously infiltrate an aircraft’s critical systems.
Speaking to French aviation journalists on Thursday, Patrick Ky, executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, said a consultant hired by the Cologne-based agency managed to exploit vulnerabilities in the ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) used to transmit messages between aircraft and ground stations.
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