Use super-hacker reveals: I was able to control aircraft in flight – The Messenger

New security risks of scheduled flights. At least according to what is claimed by Chris Roberts, a character known in the sphere of cybersecurity and hacker, founder of One World Labs sector. Roberts admitted before the FBI agents had briefly taken control of some controls of the plane on which he was traveling, hacking entertainment system onboard.

The same would take place between 15 and 20 times between 2011 and 2014 on other scheduled flights, and airplanes produced by Boeing and Airbus airplanes. The admissions of Roberts, reports Fox News, dating back to last February and are contained in a documentocon which the FBI presented to a federal court for a search warrant to inspect the equipment Roberts.

The document, made public Friday, the hacker claims to have infiltrated into the control system of one of the engines, overwriting the code of the computer that manages the pressure and be able to give the command to “climb”, bringing the plane to move “sideways”. Roberts has also admitted to being able to monitor the air traffic using the remote system in the cockpit.

The name of Roberts came to the attention of the general public on 18 April, when the He was denied boarding on board a United Airlines flight. A few days earlier, on April 15, Roberts had been sent down to Syracuse from a plane of the same company and questioned for four hours after that, while he was in flight, had sent a tweet in which he claimed to be able to operate the release of masks oxygen plane. The tweet was immediately noticed by the authorities.

A Syracuse FBI agents had arrested Roberts two computers, several hard drives and penne usb. The document made public Friday was precisely the request for a search for this material. On that occasion it was not filed against the hacker any formal accusation in relation to his alleged activities. The FBI, however, effected an inspection on board the plane, and found that this actually an electronic box under one of the passenger seats, from which you could access to an Ethernet connector, appeared to have been tampered with.

Following that incident, the FBI and the trasnportation Security Administration (TSA) had sent a formal invitation to the airlines to be on alert against the risk that hackers on board airliners could interfere with the control systems of aircraft . In an interview with Wired, Roberts defended himself, claiming that the FBI had used instrumentally his statements. However, the hacker has not explicitly denied the incident relating to the intrusion into the control system of the plane’s engines.

After the attention aroused in the media, the United Airlines launched last week a ‘Competition among hackers, offering up to a million miles for free to those who are able to discover any’ flaws in the computer systems of the company. The competition, however, explicitly excludes the search for flaws in Wi-Fi systems and entertainment on board aircraft and those in the control command.
             
             
                         
         

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