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Security Boulevard – “…security researcher Ruben Santamarta sat in his home office in Madrid and partook in some creative googling, searching for technical documents related to his years-long obsession: the cybersecurity of airplanes.”

Dark Reading News Desk – IOActive researcher Ruben Santamarta visits the Dark Reading News Desk to discuss radio-based vulnerabilities on radiation monitoring devices and how the integrity of critical data can be manipulated to simulate or exacerbate emergency situations and complicate incident response.

TechCrunch – Every year the great and good (and bad) of the hacker/information-security world descend on Las Vegas for a week of conferences, in which many present their latest discoveries, and every year I try to itemize the most interesting (according to me) Black Hat talks for TechCrunch.

TechTimes – Boeing may be in for another round of legal woes after a leaked code hinted at possible security flaws in the 787 Dreamliner’s system. Ruben Santamarta claimed that he discovered issues in the jet airliner’s Crew Information Service/Maintenance System (CIS/MS), which could leave its multi-tiered network vulnerable to cyber attacks.

WIRED – Safecrackers of the past put a stethoscope to a safe’s panel while turning its dial, listening for the telltale murmurs of the interlocking components inside. It turns out that modern safecracking, despite all its electronic upgrades, isn’t so different.