Ruben Santamaria to show Black Hat conference how satellite communications systems can be compromised
It’s the theory that won’t go away: the idea that hackers may have brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing over the Gulf of Thailand in the early hours of March 8 this year.
This week that theory might be given a bit more credence, after a presentation at the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas.
Sin City may seem like an unlikely place for a breakthrough in the search for the missing plane, but this week it is hosting the Black Hat conference — an annual IT security talkfest in which experts reveal the holes they have discovered in online systems.
Among dozens of sessions, attendees will hear details of how USB sticks can be vulnerable to hacking, how Google Glass can be used to record users tapping their passwords at ATMs (with 90 per cent accuracy), and how one “independent security researcher” remotely compromised the heating, lighting and blinds in an up-market hotel in China.
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