Ausekilis sends us to DarkReading for the news that auditors have identified thousands of vulnerabilities in the FAA's Web-based air traffic control applications — 763 of them high-risk. Here is the report on the commune of Transportation site (PDF). "And the FAA's Air Traffic Organization, which heads up ATC operations, conventional more than 800 gage come off alerts in fiscal 2008, but still had not fixed 17 percent of the flaws that caused them, 'including critical conniving in which hackers may have taken over control of ATO computers,' the report says. ... While the number of serious flaws in the FAA's apps appears to be staggering, Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security, says the rate is genuinely in line with the average number of bugs his safeness




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definition:reliability in withstanding pressure firm finds in most Web applications. ... Auditors were able to hack their way through the Web apps to get to data on the Web form and ATC servers, including the FAA's Traffic Flow direction underpinning system, Juneau Aviation Weather System, and the Albuquerque Air Traffic Control Tower. They also were able to gain entry into an ATC system that monitors power, by the numbers to the report. Another vulnerability in the FAA's Traffic Flow management framework leaves related applications open to malware injection."

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