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This article was published on July 9, 2015 at 7:06.
The last change is the July 9, 2015 at 07:11.
Before the national carrier that leaves the ground airplanes 3500, then the bag suspending trade , then (still) one of the largest newspapers in the country that ends up strangely inaccessible. Were tribolanti hours, the latest, for the United States of America. Hours of coincidences too perverse to go unnoticed. It all started with the airline United Airlines, proceeding to Wall Street and Wall Street Journal. Computer problems that have raised the alert level. America is under hacker attack? This was the question more immediate. Government sources have immediately tried to quell the rumors, but doubts remain. It must be said, however, that at the moment there are no claims. This supports the view of the problem at the expense of that of the attack.
The chaos plane
United Airlines left on the ground its entire fleet. Over 3,500 flights were suspended worldwide. Official: problems to the computer system. But what really happened is difficult to establish. The company did not provide details, and probably of this story will be known shortly. But as it is possible that it was a hacker attack? The precedents are not many, and the most recent leads in Warsaw, Poland, where a couple of weeks ago the company LOT was forced to leave behind 1,400 passengers because an attacker had hit the ground systems that manage the plans flight.
Recently, there is also a statement of the FBI, a kind of formal invitation to the airline companies to be alert against the risk that hackers in an aircraft may interfere with the systems of control of the aircraft. What about the United Airlines, a couple of months ago, the security expert Chris Roberts tweeted – during a flight on board of the American company Boeing 737/800 – making fun of the fact of being able to enter into the computer system of the plane through the wi-fi network available to passengers. Roberts, who was later arrested and questioned by the FBI, claimed to be able to control the descent of the oxygen masks in the cabin, but also can connect his computer to the seat of a plane to access data relating to engines, fuel and the management system of the flight. And, last but not least, has turned out to have hacked into the computers of passenger aircraft up to 20 times and have taken control of the engine of an airplane during a flight. Stuff to shake your wrists, in fact.
Thesis immediately denied by the airline, but not by experts in cyber security that address continually Chapter flights. Currently there are aircraft – such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner or the Airbus 350 and A380 – which feature a single network is used by the crew to fly the aircraft by passengers that the wi-fi. And the risk, according to Bruce Scheiner wrote on his blog, “is that a hacker sitting in the back of a plane or even one that is on the ground can use the wi-fi to intrude into the system and remote control of the veivolo» because to end “any computer network is potentially vulnerable.”
Hacker on the stock market?
The suspension of trade on Wall Street has brought to the fore section of attacks on bags. It is not clear whether today’s problems can be attributed to an intrusion into computer network. Official sources exclude this hypothesis. The previous most striking about Israel, in January 2012, when the group of hackers repeatedly attacked the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, the airline El Al and three Israeli banks. It must be said, however, that the collapse of the bag is an experiment that hackers have already tested, coming at a “road” alternative. It was a hacker to pierce the official account of the news agency Associated Press and tweeting: “Last minute. Two bombs in the White House, Barack Obama has been hurt. ” Wall Street collapsed in a flash. So easy you would not believe.
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