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Srikandi - Saintis UK sedang mengembangkan teknologi pecah tanah untuk meng-hentikan hacker dari jauh rampasan pesawat berikutan kebimbangan dari agensi perisikan global yang maju teknologi boleh digunakan untuk melakukan serangan pengganas.
Para penyelidik dari Universiti Cranfield sedang membangunkan satu "rangkaian seni bina" yg serta-merta akan mengenali virus-virus berbahaya dan malware yg boleh digunakan untuk berkompromi perisian kawalan penerbangan, & membe-rikan perlindungan tambahan kepada teknologi penerbangan semasa pesawat berada di udara.
David Stupples, seorang penyelidik kerajaan terhadap keganasan siber, yang bekerja-sama dgn penyelidik di Cranfield, berkata teknologi yang dirancang untuk meneutralkan penyerang itu, mencatat teknologi yg sama boleh digunakan untuk keperluan lain seperti pengangkutan awam dan loji kuasa.
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"Kita perlu menangani masalah ini benar-benar berbeza. Kita perlu melihat seni bina yang boleh bertahan serangan malware. Ini adalah benar-benar penting untuk infrastruktur seperti stesen kuasa, loji air, semua perkara-perkara, [serta] pesawat, "Stupples kepada Guardian.
Could hackers cyber-hijack a plane? UK scientists develop tech to fight malware
UK scientists are developing ground-breaking technology to stop hackers from remotely hijacking airliners, following fears from global intelligence agencies that advanced technology could be used to conduct terrorist attacks.
The researchers from Cranfield University are developing a “network architec-ture” that would instantly recognize malicious viruses and malware that could be used to compromise flight control software, and provide additional protection for flight technology while planes are in the air.
David Stupples, a government researcher on cyber terrorism, who is working with the researchers at Cranfield, said the technology was designed to neutralize such attackers, noting the same technology could be applied to other utilities such as public transport and power plants.
“We have to address the problem completely differently. We need to look at architectures that can survive a malware attack. This is really important for infrastructure such as power stations, water plants, all of those things, [as well as] aircraft,” Stupples told The Guardian.
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Pada saat ini tidak diketahui apa2 serangan siber untuk memiliki pesawat yang disasarkan, walaupun sesetengah pengulas mengesyaki bahawa penerbangan Malaysia Airlines MH370, yg hilang pd awal tahun ini, dapat dirampas oleh peng-godam dalam serangan pengganas mungkin.
Stupples kpd Guardian ada sedikit bukti utk menyokong ini, & yg jauh rampasan kapal terbang semasa ia berada di pertengahan penerbangan akan "terbukti amat sukar."
Walau bagaimanapun, Stupples juga berkata serangan seperti itu boleh dilaku-kan oleh "seseorang yang berkaitan dengan sistem" di mana mereka secara langsung dapat memuat malware di pesawat.
"Saya mula mendapatkan pandangan kita berjuang pertempuran kalah dalam permainan malware kerana ada lebih banyak orang yang melakukan malware - sisi gelap mempunyai lebih banyak orang daripada bahagian tepi cahaya. Orang2 sisi gelap juga sangat pintar dan kita tidak boleh memandang rendah kepada mereka, "katanya.
Ini datang sebagai Robert Hannigan, pengarah baru keselamatan agensi Britain, GCHQ, menuduh yg berpangkalan di Amerika syarikat media sosial menjadi "dalam penafian" atas bagaimana internet digunakan oleh kumpulan pengganas untuk menyelaras serangan.
Menulis dalam Financial Times pd hari Selasa, Hannigan juga menegaskan bahwa "privasi bukan hak mutlak" dan bahawa pengguna internet perlu mengorbankan kebebasan awam dalam talian agar GCHQ untuk menangani ancaman baru kepada keselamatan negara.
There currently aren’t any known cyber-attacks to have targeted planes, although some commentators suspect that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared earlier this year, could have been hijacked by hackers in a possible terrorist attack.
Stupples told The Guardian there was little evidence to support this, and that remotely hijacking a plane while it was in mid-flight would have “proven extremely difficult.”
However, Stupples also said such attacks could be carried out by “someone associated with the systems” where they could directly load the malware on the plane.
“I’m beginning to get the view we’re fighting a losing battle in the malware game because there are a lot more people doing malware – the dark side has a lot more people than the light side. The dark side people are also very clever and we mustn’t underestimate them,” he added.
This comes as Robert Hannigan, the new director of Britain’s security agency, GCHQ, accused US-based social media companies of being “in denial” over how the internet is being used by terrorist groups to coordinate attacks.
Writing in the Financial Times on Tuesday, Hannigan also asserted that “privacy was not an absolute right” and that internet users would have to sacrifice civil liberties online in order for GCHQ to address new threats to national security.
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