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Title: ILS and TCAS Spoofing Demonstration
Description:
The Traffic Alert & Collision Avoidance System or TCAS was first developed in the early 1980s using transponders on aircraft to interrogate other aircraft within a set range about their distance, altitude, and heading. If a collision course is detected and the aircraft is suitably equipped, a TCAS alert will be sounded. In certain autopilot modes (mostly on Airbus), the aircraft will automatically follow the TCAS Resolution Advisory and climb or descend with no input from the pilot.Others have shown that it’s possible to create fake TCAS traffic. We’ve taken this further and investigated how airplanes equipped with autopilots capable of flying a resolution advisory themselves would respond in certain scenarios.
This event will be coordinated on the DEF CON Discord server, in channel #av-aviation-text.
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Discord: https://discord.com/channels/7082082...94164209057793
Speaker(s): Alex Lomas
Location: Aerospace Vlg
Discord: https://discord.com/channels/7082082...93044363444264
Event starts: 2020-08-08 15:00 (03:00 PM) PDT (UTC -07:00)
Event ends: 2020-08-08 15:30 (03:30 PM) PDT (UTC -07:00)
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Description:
The Traffic Alert & Collision Avoidance System or TCAS was first developed in the early 1980s using transponders on aircraft to interrogate other aircraft within a set range about their distance, altitude, and heading. If a collision course is detected and the aircraft is suitably equipped, a TCAS alert will be sounded. In certain autopilot modes (mostly on Airbus), the aircraft will automatically follow the TCAS Resolution Advisory and climb or descend with no input from the pilot.Others have shown that it’s possible to create fake TCAS traffic. We’ve taken this further and investigated how airplanes equipped with autopilots capable of flying a resolution advisory themselves would respond in certain scenarios.
This event will be coordinated on the DEF CON Discord server, in channel #av-aviation-text.
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Discord: https://discord.com/channels/7082082...94164209057793
Speaker(s): Alex Lomas
Location: Aerospace Vlg
Discord: https://discord.com/channels/7082082...93044363444264
Event starts: 2020-08-08 15:00 (03:00 PM) PDT (UTC -07:00)
Event ends: 2020-08-08 15:30 (03:30 PM) PDT (UTC -07:00)
For the most up-to-date information, please either visit https://info.defcon.org, or use HackerTracker, which is available for iOS and Android. This is an automated message, and this data was last modified 2020-08-06T21:16 (UTC).