Hacking planes - researchers developing system to stop in-flight malware

While some experts claim the threat level for hacking planes is either impossible or very unlikely, as aircrafts adopt more wireless communications technology, this could change. In the UK, City University professor Dr David Stupples and a team of researchers are looking into ways of minimizing the risk in future.

Speaking to The Guardian, Stupples claims that a ‘digital compromise’ of an aircraft is possible, and that malware could be planted in aircraft systems in the form of a cyber bomb, where in-flight systems are disrupted sufficiently to cause a crash.

Hacking planes - researchers developing system to stop in-flight malware