Terror in the Skies: Civilian Airplanes Are Getting Their GPS Hacked Over the Middle East – Experts Have No Idea How to Deal With It
Electronic warfare now endangers unsuspecting civilians, with no remedy in sight.
It has now arisen that scary cyberattacks have altered civilian planes’ in-flight GPS, causing ‘critical navigation failures’ onboard the aircraft.
And, mind you, we are not talking about one or two statistical oddities: there have been over 50 reports of attacks of this kind, that aviation leaders and experts guaranteed was ‘impossible’.
If that was not enough, we also learn that the professionals tasked with countering it have no idea how to fix this new alarming security failure.
Since late August, these electronic ‘attacks’ have been observed throughout the Middle East, particularly over Israel, Egypt, and Iraq.
The New York Post reported:
“In September,