FAA Proposes New Cybersecurity Standards For Aircraft

Just because there isn’t an obvious pathway there doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Some surprising security holes and connections have been found in automobiles, no reason to think those would not exist in aircraft as well.

The whole point of doing a security analysis of these devices is to make sure there is no way to send a corrupted ADS-B packet to an aircraft that somehow back doors into a critical system…