Delta Passenger Spoofs Wi-Fi in the Air (Pro Tip: Don’t Do This)
What happens on the flight back from Vegas definitely doesn’t stay in Vegas, and an attendee of the cybersecurity conferences held there last week is now on a glide path to learning that the hard way. Not long after Delta Air Lines flight 591 departed Las Vegas for Atlanta on Monday, a member of its flight crew sent a message to the airline reporting a Wi-Fi problem. As logged by Airframes, a data-sharing site for transportation enthusiasts, it read:“HEY ALERT CORP SECURITY WE HAVE A PAX ON THAT HAS CREATED A SCAM WIFI CALLED DELTA WIFI FAST WE BELIEVE THEY ARE TRYING TO SCAM THE OTH PAX.”The all-caps doesn’t mean the pilot was shouting.
- ▪What happens on the flight back from Vegas definitely doesn’t stay in Vegas, and an attendee of the cybersecurity conferences held there last week is now on a glide path to learning that the hard way.
- ▪Not long after Delta Air Lines flight 591 departed Las Vegas for Atlanta on Monday, a member of its flight crew sent a message to the airline reporting a Wi-Fi problem.
- ▪As logged by Airframes, a data-sharing site for transportation enthusiasts, it read:“HEY ALERT CORP SECURITY WE HAVE A PAX ON THAT HAS CREATED A SCAM WIFI CALLED DELTA WIFI FAST WE BELIEVE THEY ARE TRYING TO SCAM THE OTH PAX.”The all-caps d
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What happens on the flight back from Vegas definitely doesn’t stay in Vegas, and an attendee of the cybersecurity conferences held there last week is now on a glide path to learning that the hard way. Not long after Delta Air Lines flight 591 departed Las Vegas for Atlanta on Monday, a member of its flight crew sent a message to the airline reporting a Wi-Fi problem. As logged by Airframes, a data-sharing site for transportation enthusiasts, it read:“HEY ALERT CORP SECURITY WE HAVE A PAX ON THAT HAS CREATED A SCAM WIFI CALLED DELTA WIFI FAST WE BELIEVE THEY ARE TRYING TO SCAM THE OTH PAX.”The all-caps doesn’t mean the pilot was shouting. ACARS (short for Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System), a messaging system that Delta and other airlines use, dates to the 1970s.
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