Can you hack a modern airliner?

What may have happened to MH370?

By Colin Renouf

Why read this article With all of the media interest in the mystery of the behavior of Malaysia Airlines file MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER that took off from Kuala Lumpar, turned away from its original heading and headed off into the Indian Ocean for several hours before crashing, the world at large is interested to know if they are at risk from the same fate when flying on a Boeing 777, which is one of the mainstays of the modern airline fleet. One of the questions that has been asked is of interest to the security expert: Is it possible to hijack and aircraft from the ground using the techniques of the modern black hat hacker?

Summary - what will you learn

In this article we are going to look at answering the question that has been at the forefront of the news since the middle of March 2004: Is it possible to hack a modern airliner such as Boeing 777 to make it behave like the ill-fated Malaysian Airways MH370? If so, what would I need to do it, why would I do it, and can be done to mitigate against it. However, before we can answer these questions we have to understand how the systems on a....