U.S. Air Traffic Control Found Vulnerable

U.S. Air Traffic Control Found Vulnerable
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-10-14

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has agreed to examine computer security at air traffic control centers around the country, following a government audit that found the systems insufficiently secured against cyber attacks.

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U.S. Air Traffic Control Found Vulnerable 2004-10-15
Anonymous

Oops Windows did it again !!...

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49.7 days? Win95/98 only! 2004-10-18
Anonymous (1 replies)

The Windows 49.7 day reboot problem, this only effects Win95 and Win98. Does the FAA use a "Windows-based control system" that runs on Win95/98??? There is a patch for this reboot problem, according to MS it was released Jun-04-1999....

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Or any code using GetTickCount() without handling rollover 2004-10-20
Anonymous

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U.S. Air Traffic Control Found Vulnerable 2004-10-21
Anonymous

I always thought that availability was a key area of ensuring proper level of security on an application. How can you be secure if you are not available. I think they need to hire some real security types to come in a review their system. In the meantime you might want to think twice about taking ...

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I despair of these fools. Maybe some real prison time is required to slap some *&^(*&^%( sense into them. 2004-10-25
Roger

So last year it turned out that a nuclear power plant was operating a critical monitoring system on Windows, had it connected to the 'net, and it was infected by Slammer.

Now it turns out that the FAA has air traffic control systems running on Windows and connected to the 'net, and there's a stro...

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