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Internal confidential documents belonging to some of the largest aerospace companies in the world have been stolen from an industrial contractor and leaked online. The sensitive documents include details of Lockheed-Martin-designed military equipment - such as the specifications for an antenna in an anti-mortar defense system - according to a Register source who alerted us to the blueprints.
DoppelPaymer has set up a public website with files from companies it claims it has compromised but have not paid a ransom, and it now lists Visser on that site, together with excerpts of allegedly stolen data. In an effort to exert even more pressure on victims to pay, in part by trying to name and shame them in public, some ransomware groups are upping the ante by stealing data before they forcibly encrypt everything.
737 NG and 787 Dreamliner hit with safety flaw allegations Ailing Boeing has been hit with a double whammy of recent controversies alleging safety flaws with its 737 NG (not the fatally flawed...
I previously blogged about a Black Hat talk that disclosed security vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787 software. Ben Rothke concludes that the vulnerabilities are real, but not practical....
Boeing left its software unprotected, and researchers have analyzed it for vulnerabilities: At the Black Hat security conference today in Las Vegas, Santamarta, a researcher for security firm...
Researchers from security firm IOActive have discovered a series of vulnerabilities and attacks that they believe could be possible on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. read more
Fears of cyber-hijackings? That's plane crazy, says Dreamliner maker Black Hat A Black Hat presentation on how to potentially hijack a 787 – by exploiting bugs found in internal code left lying...
Turning off trim control software in training wouldn't give realistic results – report Boeing has admitted that pilot training simulators for the controversial 737 Max did not accurately reproduce...
Engineers knew of problem in 2017. Management didn't until after fatal crash As the 737 MAX scandal rolls on, "software delivered to Boeing" has been blamed by the company for the malfunctioning...
This is the best analysis of the software causes of the Boeing 737 MAX disasters that I have read. Technically this is safety and not security; there was no attacker. But the fields are closely...