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Cyberattack Grounds Planes In Poland

Posted by Soulskill on from the upgrade-your-ICE dept.

itwbennett writes: While the alleged hacking of in-flight systems has been much discussed recently, "there are many more areas of vulnerability to address in the aviation industry," says Tim Erlin of security firm Tripwire. "Like most industries today, aviation relies on a wide variety of interconnected systems, from air traffic control to reservations systems." Case in point: LOT Polish Airlines was forced to cancel 10 flights scheduled to depart from Warsaw's Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked its ground computer systems.

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  1. DDoS prevented submitting flight plans. by Moskit · · Score: 3, Informative

    Based on rumours so far it seems that:
    - the attack was not infiltration but DDoS,
    - it prevented transmitting flight plans to European authorities,
    - without submitting flight plan it is not allowed to take off on formal basis. Nothing technical.

    Still unclear on which part of the system got knocked out, as we would suppose some good dedicated link for submitting of flight plan information from airline.