MOVE TO IP-BASED SYSTEMS IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CREATES SECURITY VULNERABILITIES FOR AIR INDUSTRY
December 1st, 2008
BY ALAN OSBORN and PAUL COCHRANE
ONE of the aviation industry's worst nightmares - the theft of credentials to access a major airline's Citrix computer system by a criminally-controlled server - was uncovered in May this year by the US-based Internet security company Finjan. "The server contained a lot of stolen data including the credentials to log in to a well-known US airline and access Citrix, which enables airlines to provide remote access to their database for employees," said Yuval Ben-Izhtak, Finjan's Israel-based chief technology officer. ...
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