A security researcher who made headlines last month for bragging he’d hacked into a passenger jet’s internal computer systems while in flight appears to have performed the act more than a dozen times over a three-year period. Chris Roberts, founder and CTO of One World Labs, told FBI investigators earlier this year that he’d hacked into the flight systems of commercial passenger aircraft from 15-20 times from 2011-2014, and on one occasion “caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a lateral or sideways movement of the plane.”
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Researcher’s Airplane-Hacking Claims May Not Fly
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. May 19, 2015 08:52 AMA security researcher who made headlines last month for bragging he’d hacked into a passenger jet’s internal computer systems while in flight appears to have performed the act more than a dozen times over a three-year period. Chris Roberts, founder and CTO of One World Labs, told FBI investigators earlier this year that he’d hacked into the flight systems of commercial passenger aircraft from 15-20 times from 2011-2014, and on one occasion “caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a lateral or sideways movement of the plane.”