Intrusion(s) dans les systèmes d’établissement des plans de vol des compagnies aériennes ?
• dimanche 20 juin en Pologne
All Airlines Have the Security Hole That Grounded Polish Planes | WIRED
▻http://www.wired.com/2015/06/airlines-security-hole-grounded-polish-planes
MORE THAN 10 airplanes were grounded on Sunday after hackers apparently got into computer systems responsible for issuing flight plans to pilots of Poland’s state-owned LOT airline. The apparent weak link? The flight plan-delivery protocol used by every airline. In fact, though this may be the first confirmed hack of its kind, it’s very similar to a mysterious grounding of United Airlines planes that happened last month.
Yesterday, hackers breached the network at Warsaw’s Chopin airport, causing some flights to be cancelled and others to be delayed. Approximately 1,400 passengers on flights headed to Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Copenhagen, and cities in Poland were affected by the grounding. The problem was reportedly fixed after about five hours.
“We’re using state-of-the-art computer systems, so this could potentially be a threat to others in the industry,” LOT spokesman Adrian Kubicki told the BBC.
It’s possible that potentiality is already a reality. Last month, all United flights in the US were grounded for nearly an hour after the airline apparently experienced problems with flight plans dispatched to its pilots.
United provided few clues about what occurred at the time—saying only through a spokesman that flights were delayed “to ensure aircraft departed with proper dispatching information.” But passengers onboard several delayed aircraft tweeted that they’d been told bogus flight plans were the problem.
• mercredi 3 juin aux États-Unis
(article précédé de la mention caution urged
United grounded all US flights briefly amid hacking claims | Plane Talking
▻http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2015/06/03/united-grounded-all-us-flights-briefly-today-amid-hacking-claims
Wired and Quartz are reporting that a sudden grounding of pending departures by United flights in the US earlier today was the the possible result of a computer hack which generated false flight plans although no explanation as to the cause of the disruption has yet been given by what is one of the world’s largest airlines.
While the delays definitely occurred, the reports themselves urge caution in the absence of the any detailed reason being provided by United, with the hacking explanation coming from the flight deck through pilot announcements.
The most authoritative statement so far was this one published by Quartz, which also had a reporter on board one of the affected flights.
United spokesman Charles Hobart says the airline started to delay flights around 9am Eastern time “to ensure aircraft departed with proper dispatching information.” At 9:25 the FAA issued an air traffic control advisory that all United Flights were grounded.
Hobart could not immediately say how many flights were affected, nor if the airline knew the root cause of the issue.