-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [hub@mypnr.eu] PNR hacking demo today at CCC Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 08:44:53 -0800 From: Edward Hasbrouck edward@hasbrouck.org Reply-To: PNR mailing list hub@mypnr.eu Organisation: The Practical Nomad To: hub-at-mypnr.eu@lists.xwalck.se
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002279.html
Today at the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress (33C3) in Hamburg, Germany, white-hat hackers from Security Research Labs will publicly demonstrate their ability to access and alter other people's airline reservations (PNRs). They exploit vulnerabilities including ones that I wrote about and called to the attention of all of the four major Computerized Reservation Systems in 2002. But the CRSs have made a deliberate choice not to close these because (a) government authorities have not enforced existing data protection laws (in other countries than the USA, which has no such laws) against CRSs, airlines, or travel agencies, and (b) these travel companies put their profits ahead of passengers' privacy and security. There's been some advance coverage in German news media. But the CRS exploits discussed in these news stories are not the most serious of those that I expect the folks from SRLabs (perhaps best known for their previous public demonstrations of "BadUSB" exploits) to demonstrate at 33C3. Watch the livestream here at 21:45 CET in Hamburg: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/33c3
Recorded video will be posted later, but I don't know how soon. I'll add a link once it is available.
In the meantime, here are links and answers to some of the most frequently-asked questions I've been getting in the last few days:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002279.html
Best regards,
Edward Hasbrouck
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