Automated Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast , or ADS - B , is the future of Air Traffic Control . It ’s an automatize system that provide computer hardware on planes to radio set in the aircraft ’s co-ordinate to the tower , instead of using radio detection and ranging to pick up each plan separately . job is , you could hack on it to hell .
While the ADS - B is safeguarded against more traditional digital worries — like being all shut down or unable to pass with planes — it lacks the encryption and authentication to protect it from other contour of attack . For example , “ a average - proficient savvy mortal ” could well impersonate a plane . Someone who acknowledge what they ’re doing ? They could impersonate 1000 .
Two freestanding papers are being presented at the Black Hat and Defcon security conference this workweek detailing how vulnerable ADS - B is to such an attack . There are failsafes , like the retention of half of the old radiolocation equipment , and the ability to cut across delay flight logs , but if the number of false signal spiral out of control — like a DDoS onrush — it could totally lame the system .
protection mass have been secern the FAA that ADS - B is unsafe for years , but it ’s already expend century of millions of dollar on the system , so it ’s believably get under one’s skin to patch the blemished ADS - B up instead of let it waste in moth-eaten memory — and then hope that HOIC ’s eventual big brothers do n’t make it bid it had n’t . [ Forbes ]
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