Fw: [IP] Malware kills 154

Thierry Moreau thierry.moreau at connotech.com
Mon Aug 23 17:17:56 EDT 2010


Peter Gutmann wrote:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> forwards:
> 
>> "Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022
>> have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical
>> problems in the aircraft was infected with malware...."
>>
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38790670/ns/technology_and_science-security/?gt1=43001
> 
> Sigh, yet another attempt to use the "dog ate my homework" of computer
> problems, if their fly-by-wire was Windows XP then they had bigger things to
> worry about than malware.
> 

FYI, avionics firmware/software is subject to RTCA DO-178b certification 
and fly-by-wire will inevitably require a "level A" certification which 
is quite demanding (i mean *QUITE*DEMANDING*) for software development 
process certification. There is no chance that an XP-based 
application/system would ever meet even the lower certification levels 
(but for the lowest one which corresponds to passenger entertainment 
systems).

Commercial avionics certification looks like the most demanding among 
industrial sectors requiring software certification (public 
transportation, high energy incl. nuclear, medical devices, government 
IT security in some countries, electronic payments, lottery and casino 
systems).

-- 
- Thierry Moreau

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