[ThreatPost]Researcher Demonstrates Commercial Airplane Navigation System Compromise

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Researcher Demonstrates Commercial Airplane Navigation System Compromise

As if hurtling through the air at 500 miles per hour in an enormous meshing of metal and wires wasn?t terrifying enough, security researcher Hugo Teso presented a practical demonstration of a remote airline attack in which he took complete control of a virtual aircraft?s flight management system (FMS) at the Hack-in-the-Box security conference in Amsterdam yesterday.

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