Study finds most A320 pilots shrug, ignore dodgy systems and land safely
Airline pilots faced with hacked or spoofed safety systems tend to ignore them – but could cost their airlines big sums of money, an infosec study has found.
An Oxford University research team put 30 Airbus A320-rated pilots in front of a desktop flight simulator before manipulating three safety systems: the Instrument Landing System (ILS), the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) and the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS).
The team, who presented their paper at the NDSS infosec symposium, found that while their attacks against these systems "created significant control impact and disruption through missed approaches", all pilots in the study were able to cope and land their simulated aircraft safely.
Pilots in the study were exposed to false warnings from each of the systems to see what their reactions we ..
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