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GAO report on cybersecurity in Air Traffic Control is outright scary
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2015-04-17
- Society, aircraft, airplane, control system, FAA, firewall, GAO, in-flight, network, terror, terrorist attack, USA, vulnerability
The fact that the modern aircraft can be controlled from the ground is not widely publicized but known. There was though a lot of controversy, including among specialists, about how much of control could be intercepted by unauthorized 3rd parties. Well, now the extent of the problem is confirmed officially. The U.S. Government Accountability Office ...
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Google bots subversion
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-11-09
- Technology, application security, attack, bots, Development, firewall, Google, philosophy, secure by design, software, software design, software security, subversion, technology, unexpected
There is a lot of truth in saying that every tool can be used by good and by evil. There is no point in blocking the tools themselves as the attacker will turn to new tools and subvert the very familiar tools in unexpected ways. Now Google crawler bots were turned into such a weapon ...
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