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DHS Led Team Demonstrates That Commercial Aircraft Can Be Remotely Hacked

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 8th, 2017

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DHS Led Team Demonstrates That Commercial Aircraft Can Be Remotely Hacked

Dr. Robert Hickey, aviation program manager, DHS Science and Technology Cyber Security Division.

TYSONS, Va.—A team of government, industry and academic officials last year successfully demonstrated that a commercial aircraft could be remotely hacked in a non-laboratory setting, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said on Wednesday.“We got the airplane on the 19th of September 2016, two days later I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration,” which “means I didn’t have anybody touching the airplane, I didn’t have an insider threat, I stood off using typical stuff that could get…

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