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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. It plans to fly again on Saturday but United Airlines kept them off the plane. So one security researcher decided to poke the tiger.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

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Like airline stewards, they get to travel too all the exciting parts of the world, right? Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. Vamosi: There are at least two complete operating systems available for pentesters.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

Like airline stewards, they get to travel too all the exciting parts of the world, right? Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. Vamosi: There are at least two complete operating systems available for pentesters.

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The FAA is struggling. Who can save it?

Vox

But as an outage that grounded thousands of flights across the US last week made clear, the NOTAM system is also fragile. The root of the problem appears to be a computer operating system that the Federal Aviation Administration has used to relay NOTAMs for the past three decades.