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Hacking the Boeing 787

2008-01-07 12:38:44 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
The news articles are pretty sensational: The computer network in the Dreamliner's passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight internet access, is connected to the plane's control, navigation and communication systems, an FAA report reveals And : According to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, the new Boeing 787...
 
Tags: data, airplane data buses, on-board computer networks, networks, systems, control systems, communication systems, control, aircraft data buses
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Situations for Event Processing

2008-07-15 05:04:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
CEP, in a nutshell, is about the real-time detection of business opportunities and threats in cyberspace. Business opportunities and threats are often referred to as situations, so we can simply say that CEP is about the real-time situation detection We represent situations in the domain of event processing by building and refining models of...
 
Tags: model, airplane collision model, simple model, model simple, situations, hierarchical model, complex model, simple airplane model, real-time situation detection
 
 
 
 
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Complex Events are Composed of Objects Defined by States

2008-07-15 06:17:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
Often you will read or hear people talking about CEP and they will define a complex event as an event composed of other event-objects. Caution is advised, because a complex event is more than just a simple composite or aggregation of other events For example, in my earlier post Modelling Situations for Event Processing , we illustrated modelling...
 
Tags: event, defines event, define event, define, complex event, objects, complex events, events, event-objects
 
 
 
 
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Hijacking in New Zealand

2008-02-20 07:26:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
There are a couple of interesting things about the hijacking in New Zealand two weeks ago. First, it was a traditional hijacking. Remember after 9/11 when people said that the era of airplane hijacking was over, that it would no longer be possible to hijack an airplane and demand a ransom or demand passage to some exotic location? Turns out...
 
Tags: traditional, traditional non-terrorist hijackings, demand passage, demand, airplane, media coverage, weeks ago, exotic location, zealand
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-15 18:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
In the information age, we all have a data shadow We leave data everywhere we go. It's not just our bank accounts and stock portfolios, or our itemized bills, listing every credit card purchase and telephone call we make. It's automatic road-toll collection systems, supermarket affinity cards, ATMs and so on It's also our lives. Our love letters...
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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Hijacker Working at Heathrow Airport

2008-05-19 13:02:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
An airplane hijacker -- a real one, someone with actual airplane hijacking experience -- was working at Heathrow Airport Surreal EDITED TO ADD (5/19): Or maybe he wasn't working at the airport itself. Anyone have any more information
 
Tags: airport, heathrow airport, actual airplane, airplane hijacker, information, experience, surreal, real
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-20 13:10:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
In the information age, we all have a data shadow We leave data everywhere we go. It's not just our bank accounts and stock portfolios, or our itemized bills, listing every credit card purchase and telephone call we make. It's automatic road-toll collection systems, supermarket affinity cards, ATMs and so on It's also our lives. Our love letters...
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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Airplane Stowaways

2008-01-29 14:33:27 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Two Ethiopian cabin cleaners were found hiding in the ceiling of an aircraft after it landed at Dulles. Presumably they were allowed on the plane at Addis Abbaba, but no one checked to make sure they got off
 
Tags: ethiopian cabin cleaners, addis abbaba, plane, aircraft, dulles
 
 
 
 
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How to Escape Down an Airplane Slide

2008-01-26 03:33:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
Did you know every 11 days an airliner deploys its inflatable evacuation slide? And that's just in the United States. To help prepare you for such an event, Time magazine has a pretty good how-to article
 
Tags: inflatable evacuation slide, how-to article, airliner deploys, time magazine, event, days, pretty, prepare
 
 
 
 
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FAA Badges Missing

2008-03-11 11:14:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
I don't know how big a deal this really is, but it is amusing nonetheless: According to the investigation, 122 Federal Aviation Administration safety inspector badges have been stolen or lost in the past five years. The credentials are one of the few forms of identification that give complete and unfettered access to airport facilities,...
 
Tags: faa badge, badge, person free access, access, airport, airport facilities, badges, airline, commercial pilot