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Only A Matter Of Time Before A Cyber Plane Hack, Airline Security Official Warns

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, October 31st, 2014

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Only A Matter Of Time Before A Cyber Plane Hack, Airline Security Official Warns

Airbus A350 passenger plane flying at the Farnborough Air Show this year. Pascal Andrei, head of Aircraft Security at Airbus, said at AVSEC World he hired 15 hackers find cyber vulnerabilities on the aircraft. Photo: Airbus Group

So far theories of how to hack into an airplane have been “debunked,” but given the way hackers openly share information and the status that that would come with a cyber plane hack it’s only a matter of time before it is done, an official with Air Canada said this week. Over time elite hackers have moved from simply defacing web sites and taking over traffic lights to hacking automated teller machines all for fun and to “prove a point…

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