Aerospace Village·25 min
Alex Lomas · Ken Munro
Tours a decommissioned Boeing 747 airframe to examine cockpit systems, avionics bays, and physical attack surfaces.
boeingavionicshardware+2
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Aerospace Village Safe Mode
Virtual (Discord and Twitch) · 6-9 August 2020 · 34 talks
Aerospace Village focuses on aviation and space cybersecurity, covering satellite communication, avionics architectures, and flight systems security. Talks explore vulnerabilities in avionics protocols, satellite tracking and simulation, GPS and RF spoofing, and collaborative disclosure across the aerospace ecosystem.
1–24 of 33 talks / 34
Aerospace Village·23 min
Harshad Sathaye
Examines the fundamental protocol weaknesses that enable RF spoofing attacks against Instrument Landing Systems and ADS-B broadcasts.
ilsads-bspoofing+2
Aerospace Village·38 min
Liz Wharton
Navigates through airport check-in systems, digital signage, retail networks, and logistics infrastructure to illustrate facility security risks.
airportsiotransomware+2
Aerospace Village·38 min
Liz Wharton
Explores security pitfalls across passenger terminals, baggage handling, gate signage, and airline check-in infrastructure.
airportsiotransomware+2
Aerospace Village·27 min
Javad Dadgar · Mohammad-Reza Zamiri · Reza Dorosti
Uses reverse engineering to uncover vulnerabilities in flight management computers and demonstrates manipulation of navigation data.
avionicsreverse-engineeringnavigation+2
Aerospace Village·20 min
Gui Michel
Analyzes the effectiveness of the FAA's Privacy ICAO Address program against crowdsourced ADS-B aircraft tracking networks.
faaicaoads-b+2
Aerospace Village·1 hr
Brings together leaders from government, airlines, and research communities to discuss coordinating IT and OT defense across aviation.
aerospaceaviationairports+2
Aerospace Village·20 min
Jay Angus
Presents a practical checklist for researchers and aerospace vendors to coordinate vulnerability disclosures smoothly and build trust.
vulnerability-disclosureaviationpolicy+2
Aerospace Village·30 min
Nathalie Feyt · Lawrence Rowell · Yannick Le Ray
Shows how red and blue teams collaborate using a hack-and-fix methodology to harden avionics, in-cabin entertainment, and ATM systems.
avionicsred-teamblue-team+2
Aerospace Village·49 min
Aaron Cornelius · Tim Brown
Examines how aviation standards like DO-178C must adapt to address modern cockpit interfaces, maintenance ports, and connected systems.
regulationdo-178ccompliance+2
Aerospace Village·44 min
Pam Melroy
Draws on human spaceflight missions to highlight software redundancy, access tiering, and command protocol resilience for space systems.
spacespacecraftsafety-systems+2
Aerospace Village·35 min
Laura Chappell
Explores communication protocols, extreme latency challenges, and data architectures used in deep space network communications.
spacesatellitesprotocols+2
Aerospace Village·20 min
Martin Strohmeier
Analyzes how plaintext wireless protocols and crowdsourced sensor networks undermine privacy for corporate, government, and military aircraft.
ads-bprivacysurveillance+2
Aerospace Village·27 min
Patrick Kiley
Examines the engineering challenges, risk management decisions, and hacker mindset behind building an experimental homebuilt aircraft.
aviationhardwareaerospace+2
Aerospace Village·47 min
Brandon Bailey
Demonstrates command replay, command link intrusion, and GPS jamming attacks against operational spacecraft simulators.
spacecraftsatellitesspace+2
Aerospace Village·44 min
David Robinson
Surveys security weaknesses in connected General Aviation Electronic Flight Bag applications and provides mitigation strategies for developers.
efbgeneral-aviationaviation+2
Aerospace Village·23 min
Harshad Sathaye
Explains the principles of GPS signal manipulation and reviews hands-on spoofing attack scenarios and receiver mitigation techniques.
gpswirelessspoofing+2
Aerospace Village·48 min
Discusses building collaborative relationships and trust between independent security researchers and Aviation ISACs.
isacaerospaceaviation+2
Aerospace Village·49 min
Explores legal frameworks, regulatory mandates, and best practices for supporting good-faith cybersecurity research in aviation.
regulationpolicyaerospace+2
Aerospace Village·17 min
Ali Abdollahi
Analyzes vulnerabilities in airplane air-to-ground communication links using LTE-Advanced and satellite transceivers.
avionicscellularlte+2
Aerospace Village·26 min
Alex Lomas
Introduces the ACARS protocol, demonstrates live message decoding with an RTL-SDR, and reviews risks in CPDLC datalinks.
acarsavionicssdr+2
Aerospace Village·23 min
Allan Tart · Fabian Landis
Demonstrates how to build an inexpensive multichannel VHF receiver using a Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR to record ATC audio.
vhfrtl-sdrsdr+2
Aerospace Village·54 min
Matt Gaffney
Analyzes security concerns across the Aircraft Information Services Domain, ARINC 821 networking, and Electronic Flight Bags.
avionicsmitmaviation+2
Aerospace Village·22 min
Matt Smith
Evaluates how 30 commercial pilots respond in flight simulators to simulated ADS-B, ACARS, and IFE cyberattacks.
flight-simulatoravionicsads-b+2