http://rt.com/news/teso-plane-hijack-android-716/

There’s now another reason to be aerophobic after a German hacker demonstrated how to remotely hijack and bring down an airplane using an app for the Android phone.

The presentation called ‘Aircraft Hacking: Practical Aero Series' by Hugo Teso has become the highlight of the Hack In The Box security conference in Amsterdam on April 10-11, terrifying most of those, who attended it.

Teso, who currently works as a security consultant at the German n.runs IT-company, has used his experience of being a commercial pilot to create the software, which grants him full control of a passenger aircraft.

It took the researcher three years to come up with the PlaneSploit app for Android based on his SIMON code, which proved that – despite the tightened security in airports and on-board – air carriers are completely defenceless when it comes cyber-attacks.

Once he got into the system, he was able to manipulate the steering of a Boeing jet in autopilot mode, saying he could also change the plane's course, crash it, make oxygen masks fall out and etc.

"You can use this system to modify approximately everything related to the navigation of the plane. That includes a lot of nasty things," the hacker told Forbes.

Another problem, which Teso pointed out during his presentation, is that lots of aircraft computers run outdated software, which doesn’t meet modern safety requirements.

Nigerian Planes have such outdated software that we will be sitting fodder for this kind of cyber attack from a PHONE!!!

“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class,

while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.”

—The Rothschild brothers of London

I'm watching.

Na we people go destroy ourselves not even God as tings are going imagine a drunk man wake up from sleep and decide to crash a plane containing his enemy just using a phone wont dat be disastrous gosh

Oyinbo no be our mate; truth is bitter, but must be said. Science and technology seems limited only by their imagination. On the other hand, we're still here grappling with the 19th Century basics, and we cant even get that right. We dey here dey do juju and winchi for each other inside darkness, and dey boast about meaningless sexual prowess and other frivolities, whereas serious minded and intelligent people dey aspire towards god-like omniscience. This is just incredible.

Seems like an opportunity for talented and smart software and anti-cyber attack engineers to become the new kings in the airline business and aeronautical engineering companies.

At present, the only classification of aircraft that can be controlled by any sort of phone or remote signal transmission device would be a MODEL TOY plane, simply because the autopilot of commercial aircraft is NOT at present interfaced with any radio link by which such remote control could hypothetically be attempted.

Radio links to Boeing and Airbus commercial aircraft at present comprise the COM radio links for pilot to ground communications, generally located aft of the throttles on the pedestal, along with the telemetry and the ACARS text-based COMMUNICATION links accessed via the Flight Management Computer. While the feasibility of terrestrial remote control of hijacked aircraft is currently being studied by design engineers for FUTURE application, that capability does NOT exist in any aircraft used for commercial flights today.

That said, crash tests have been performed using obsolete commercial jets which have been adapted for ground-based radio-control by scientists evaluating the efficacy of fire retardent chemicals and such, in the context of staging deliberate crashes whose effects are under study. The massive cockpit flight-control modifications required for those one-off studies COULD be tidied up for general use in commercial aviation, BUT, that step has most definitely NOT been taken as of today.

It can be hacked especially on descent to an airport

Nobody can even come near to hijacking a plane with the latest and smartest computer on ground not to talk of an app in an andriod phone.

There's no compatibility whatsover!

Wow! This is un-fucking-believable, jonathan may need to watch his back "well well".

Omo mehn!!!! This is a correct weapon o!! If chaina hijack this tin ehn! Na die o!

This android is starting to get more interesting and dangerous with each passing day.

fear catch me