While much of aviation cybersecurity focuses on network-based threats, researchers just showed that a physical attack on an airplane may require surprisingly little time or money.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego and Oberlin College built a small, coin-sized device that can take over communications between two key flight computers on Boeing 737 aircraft.
The prototype costs less than $100 to build and can be plugged into a maintenance port inside an electronics bay underneath the plane’s nose. The bay can be accessed from the ground through an exterior hatch that is not locked and is routinely accessible to maintenance…
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