Understanding the Impact of Scattered Spider on the Airline & Transportation Industry

In June, the FBI publicly warned that Scattered Spider is actively targeting the aviation and transportation sectors, including well-known airlines and their third-party IT vendors. In this post, we will provide a brief overview of Scattered Spider, insights gathered by our research team into the...

Insights and highlights from DEF CON 32

TL; DR Event Dates : August 8-11, 2024, in Las Vegas. PTP Presentations : Windows Hello : Our Ceri Coburn with Outsider Security's Dirk-Jan Mollema revealed vulnerabilities in biometric authentication. Maritime Security : Paul Brownridge discussed vulnerabilities in maritime systems and...

747 Hackathon

As is probably clear from our blog and public talks aviation cyber security is an area of huge interest to us. Some of us are also light aircraft pilots, so the crossover of two of our loves makes for some fascinating research. Over the last few years we’ve managed to get access to several...

Getting a persistent shell on a 747 IFE

TL:DR The Coronavirus pandemic has hit the airline industry hard. One sad consequence was early retirement of most of the 747 passenger fleet. This does however create opportunities for aviation security research, as airframes are parked up before parting out in breakers yards. This 747 was flyin...

Mapping the Attack Surface of an Airport

Aviation security is a complex environment. What first sparked my interest in avionics security was a comment from an airport customer of ours. They had seen the media coverage of the DHS work against a Boeing 757 a few years ago and were concerned that an ‘infected’ airplane might create a fresh...

A Pen Tester’s First Solo: Aviation Security 101

My colleague Ken and I are both private pilots with a keen interest in avionics and security. We were fortunate to have access to some end of life, functioning airframes so had the opportunity to start investigating the security of airplane and avionics. Here’s a primer for anyone interested in...

aviationexperience.digitickets.co.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-684090 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| aviationexperience.digitickets.co.uk Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79...