Aerospace Village·28 min
Pearce Barry
Pearce Barry revives hardware bridging tools in Metasploit, connecting CAN bus and serial hardware interfaces directly into avionics attack surfaces.
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Aerospace Village DC29
Paris and Bally's Hotels, Las Vegas · 5-8 August 2021 · 17 talks
Aerospace Village focuses on aviation and space cybersecurity, satellite reverse engineering, avionics CAN and ARINC bus protocols, GPS and ADS-B spoofing, and Hack-A-Sat challenges.
1–17 of 17 talks
Aerospace Village·24 min
Joshua Smailes
Joshua Smailes demonstrates injecting forged digital air traffic control messages via CPDLC, executing man-in-the-middle attacks on oceanic flights.
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Aerospace Village·26 min
Jason Whelan
Jason Whelan presents custom Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) for UAVs, detecting real-time GPS spoofing, signal jamming, and unauthorized telecommands.
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Aerospace Village·19 min
Kevin Hood
Kevin Hood shares how developing interactive 3D models and simulated aerospace environments helps students jump-start careers in aerospace cybersecurity.
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Aerospace Village·30 min
Nicholas Childs
Nicholas Childs demystifies aircraft avionics communication buses, providing a foundational primer on ARINC 429, MIL-STD-1553, and cockpit data networks.
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Aerospace Village·15 min
Leeloo Granger
Leeloo Granger evaluates wireless attacks on certified Garmin GTN750 avionics hardware, demonstrating live GPS and Mode S spoofing in a certified testbed.
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Aerospace Village·30 min
Steve Luczynski · Larry Grossman
FAA Chief Information Security Officer Larry Grossman shares federal perspectives on securing IT and operational systems across national civil aviation.
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Aerospace Village·27 min
Ronald Brobert
Ronald Brobert applies American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) to NASA's Core Flight System (cFS), discovering memory corruption bugs in lunar lander and satellite telemetry apps.
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Aerospace Village·31 min
US Air Force, Space Force, and challenge designers discuss Hack-A-Sat 2, showcasing the physical flatsat satellite hardware used in the world's premier space CTF.
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Aerospace Village·22 min
Alex Lomas · Phil Eveleigh
Pen Test Partners researchers Alex Lomas and Phil Eveleigh audit legacy In-Flight Entertainment (IFEC) systems decommissioned from retired Boeing 747 aircraft.
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Aerospace Village·26 min
Allan Tart
Allan Tart demonstrates combining crowdsourced ADS-B telemetry and VHF air traffic control voice feeds to construct comprehensive real-time flight profiles.
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Aerospace Village·59 min
Elizabeth Wharton
Elizabeth Wharton navigates the legal, regulatory, and technical complexities of commercial space cyber breaches, space ransomware, and orbital jurisdiction.
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Aerospace Village·25 min
Darren Cofer
Darren Cofer presents outcomes from DARPA's HACMS program, building provably secure military drone flight control software using seL4 microkernels and formal verification.
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Aerospace Village·25 min
James Pavur
Oxford researcher James Pavur evaluates cybersecurity threats in secondary rocket payloads, modeling space-to-space radio attacks and CubeSat supply chain risks.
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Aerospace Village·28 min
Aerospace cybersecurity practitioners and government leaders discuss career paths, working across airlines and federal agencies, and demystifying aviation security.
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Aerospace Village·40 min
Brandon Bailey
Aerospace Corporation lead Brandon Bailey introduces automated binary inspection pipelines to hunt for zero-days in black-box spacecraft firmware.
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Aerospace Village·30 min
Matt Gaffney
Matt Gaffney recounts reporting critical vulnerabilities to aircraft manufacturers, analyzing why safety arguments are required to prompt aviation remediation.
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