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What the fuck?!?
From Wired:
- Fighter Jets Scramble Following Threats To Planes
Yesterday, I was in Long Beach, CA and I watched 8 straight C-17's scramble out of Long Beach Airport, and veer out towards LAX. EIGHT! That was not reported in the news. But these today, out of the New York City area are making the news. Good. ...
- Possible Attempted Terror Attack In New York: Close Call As Planes Nearly Collide Over Westchester
Investigators Exclusive: Close call as planes nearly collide over Westchester WESTCHESTER COUNTY (WABC) -- Eyewitness News has learned that two planes nearly collided in mid-air over Westchester County over the weekend, and now, two passengers are speaking...
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Muslim shouts "You're all going to die, Allahu akbar" on Southwest flight, plane makes emergency landing From Will at The Other News: FBI Special Agent Mark White, based in Dallas, said the event did not appear to be an act of terrorism. He described...
- Christian Evangelical Taken Off Florida Flight For Threatenind Jews
Absolutely testing security and response now. What the fuck is it with Detroit bound Northwest flights? Newsmax: Fla. Cops: Man Threatening Jews Taken off Flight Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 08:29 AM Police say an airline passenger in Miami proclaimed "I want...
- U.s. Plane Turned Back To Amsterdam
No details are being released yet, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with terrorism: AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two Dutch fighter planes accompanied a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for Mumbai back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday,...
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Feds Say, Hacker Commandeered Commercial Airline, Briefly Flew Plane SIDEWAYS
What the fuck?!?
From Wired:
A SECURITY RESEARCHER kicked off a United Airlines flight last month after tweeting about security vulnerabilities in its system had previously taken control of an airplane and caused it to briefly fly sideways, according to an application for a search warrant filed by an FBI agent.
Chris Roberts, a security researcher with One World Labs, told the FBI agent during an interview in February that he had hacked the in-flight entertainment system, or IFE, on an airplane and overwrote code on the plane’s Thrust Management Computer while aboard the flight. He was able to issue a climb command and make the plane briefly change course, the document states.
“He stated that he thereby caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a lateral or sideways movement of the plane during one of these flights,” FBI Special Agent Mark Hurley wrote in his warrant application (.pdf). “He also stated that he used Vortex software after comprising/exploiting or ‘hacking’ the airplane’s networks. He used the software to monitor traffic from the cockpit system.”
Hurley filed the search warrant application last month after Roberts was removed from a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Syracuse, New York, because he published a facetious tweet suggesting he might hack into the plane’s network.
Upon landing in Syracuse, two FBI agents and two local police officers escorted him from the plane and interrogated him for several hours. They also seized two laptop computers and several hard drives and USB sticks.
Although the agents did not have a warrant when they seized the devices, they told Roberts a warrant was pending. A media outlet in Canada obtained the application for the warrant today and published it online. The information outlined in the warrant application reveals a far more serious situation than Roberts has previously disclosed.
- Fighter Jets Scramble Following Threats To Planes
Yesterday, I was in Long Beach, CA and I watched 8 straight C-17's scramble out of Long Beach Airport, and veer out towards LAX. EIGHT! That was not reported in the news. But these today, out of the New York City area are making the news. Good. ...
- Possible Attempted Terror Attack In New York: Close Call As Planes Nearly Collide Over Westchester
Investigators Exclusive: Close call as planes nearly collide over Westchester WESTCHESTER COUNTY (WABC) -- Eyewitness News has learned that two planes nearly collided in mid-air over Westchester County over the weekend, and now, two passengers are speaking...
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Muslim shouts "You're all going to die, Allahu akbar" on Southwest flight, plane makes emergency landing From Will at The Other News: FBI Special Agent Mark White, based in Dallas, said the event did not appear to be an act of terrorism. He described...
- Christian Evangelical Taken Off Florida Flight For Threatenind Jews
Absolutely testing security and response now. What the fuck is it with Detroit bound Northwest flights? Newsmax: Fla. Cops: Man Threatening Jews Taken off Flight Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 08:29 AM Police say an airline passenger in Miami proclaimed "I want...
- U.s. Plane Turned Back To Amsterdam
No details are being released yet, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with terrorism: AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two Dutch fighter planes accompanied a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for Mumbai back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday,...