Hacker: One Android Phone Can Crash a Plane

Airplane

AirplaneA hacker claims that a single Android handset can be used to hijack an entire plane, Net-Security reported. Security consultant and trained commercial pilot Hugo Teso explained during a speech at the Hack In The Box Conference in Amsterdam this week that it is possible to develop an Android application that can attack a plane’s Flight Management Systems. He said that he could take complete control of an airplane and have it “dance to his tune.” The application, which is known as PlaneSploit and is only a proof-of-concept, can access specific information about individual aircrafts — identification data, position, altitude and more — by intercepting radio broadcasts to air traffic controllers. A second exploit can then be used to send malicious commands to the plane, allowing the attacker to alter the flight’s destination, sound alarms and flash interior lights or even crash the aircraft.

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