Cyber hacking - Tok han virkelig over flyet?

Saken har versert en stund nå, men det er mange skeptikere på banen.

Officials look into whether hacker really took over plane

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. authorities are probing whether a computer security expert was actually able to hack into the computer system of a plane he flew aboard and cause it to bank sideways for a brief time.

Chris Roberts, a well-known cybersecurity researcher, had previously alerted authorities to what he said were security flaws in several common airliners.

He told FBI agents in April that he had hacked into the in-flight entertainment systems on numerous planes and, in one case, made a plane briefly fly sideways by telling one of the engines to go into climb mode.

Senior law enforcement officials said Sunday that no evidence gathered thus far suggests that such a capability, as outlined by Roberts, exists. The official was not authorized to speak publicly.

"While we will not comment on specific allegations, there is no credible information to suggest an airplane's flight control system can be accessed or manipulated from its in flight entertainment system. Nevertheless, attempting to tamper with the flight control systems of aircraft is illegal and any such attempts will be taken seriously by law enforcement."

Roberts did not respond to requests for comment, but did tweet on Saturday that he's been advised to keep quiet on the topic. "There's a whole five years of stuff that the affidavit incorrectly compressed into 1 paragraph....lots to untangle," he tweeted.

Roberts told Fox News in March that he knew how to "take planes out of the sky" by hacking into their entertainment systems.

The FBI filed an affidavit in a New York court for a warrant to search Roberts computers April 17, first reported by a Canadian news service on Friday.