Hacking the Global Distribution Systems (GDS). Joseph Cox reports on the findings of SR Labs‘ Karsten Nohl and Nemanja Nikodijevic: It’s Incredibly Easy to Tamper with Someone’s Flight Plan, Anywhere on the Globe (Motherboard)
Armed with these techniques, a hacker might be able to track someone, finding out where they’re flying to and from. Working with the German TV station ARD, the researchers were able to change the flight booking of a reporter, putting him on the same flight as, and in an adjacent seat to, a German politician.
Original conference 27 Dec 2016 @Chaos Communication Congress (Slides)