FIA detects mega scandal in PIA
Karachi
May 25, 2021
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has detected a mega corruption scandal in Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pertaining to the upgradation of the business class. FIA Sindh chief Amir Farooqi on Monday claimed to have arrested a former director engineering of the PIA.
The spokesman for the FIA said the FIA’s Corporate Crime Circle (CCC) Karachi had conducted an inquiry and the FIR lodged in this regard said that by the order of the apex court of Pakistan in a human rights case, a special audit of PIA Corporation Ltd was conducted, which led to an audit para pertaining to corruption and corrupt practices in projects for the upgradation of business class seats.
Desk tops these days. they sit in our mobile devices. they control the power grids. yes, they re in airplanes as well. and any computer system if not properly protected, can be hacked. now, what roberts said he did is he connected his laptop into the seat electronic box, which is located in some aircraft directly under the seat and from there just using a simple username and password the default ones was able to break into the in-flight entertainment system and from there jump electronically into the system control aircraft. he said he did this multiple times, yes? yeah he said he s done it many times over the past several years. he s a well-known researcher in the security space, and he studies something called the internet of things. he presented it at a conference earlier this year, the rsa security conference on how power control systems that control the electronic grid could be taken down with information simply available across the internet. okay. this is very frightening i
The entertainment system and getting up here and taking control. now the fbi and united airlines are taking him seriously. we re trying to make the system safer, better, and more secure. reporter: chris roberts is either a hacker who has uncovered a dangerous back door that could allow a passenger to take control of a plane. it is definitely possible to manipulate the electronics through the in-flight entertainment system and satellite communications to get to the avionics of an airplane. reporter: or an exaggerator needlessly scaring the flying public. the fbi says in a newly public affidavit roberts claims he hacked into a plane s entertainment system up to 20 times and this one case caused one of the airplane engines to climb, resulting in lateral or sideways movement of the plane. while agents continue to look for evidence of that, the fbi issued a statement to nbc news late sunday, there is no credible information to suggest an airplane s flight control
System could be accessed or manipulated from its in-flight entertainment system. roberts has now stopped giving interviews, but on sunday tweeted my only interest has been to improve aircraft security. but there s widespread skepticism about his claim. recently retired commercial airline pilot jim tillman. the folks at airbus and boeing are far too smart to create some system like that. it s just ridiculous. reporter: tech writer bob sullivan is also skeptical, but there s a long history of computer hackers who are on the right side of things tinkering, maybe around the edges of the law, and we don t want to shoot the messenger here when the messenger has an incredibly important security problem to talk about. reporter: i m inside the cockpit of a plane owned by trinity air ambulance. they allowed us in here so we could show how advanced the cockpit has become these days. meantime, the gao has just released a report that says any
For evidence of that the fbi issued a statement to nbc news late sunday there is no credible information to suggest an airplane s flight control system can be accessed or manipulated from its in-flight entertainment system. roberts has now stopped giving interviews, but on sunday tweeted, my only interest has been to improve aircraft security. but there s widespread skepticism about his claim, recently retired commercial airplane pilot jim tillman. the folks at air bus and boeing are far too smart to create some system like that. reporter: bob sullivan is also skeptical but there s a long history of computer hackers on the right side of things tinkering maybe around the edges of the law and we don t want to shoot the messenger here when a messenger has an incredibly important security problem to talk about. reporter: the plane i m in right now, owned by trinity air