Hugo Teso posts 'primer' to his aircraft hacking talk at #HITB2013AMS
L33tdawg: If you're attending Hugo Teso's Practical Aircraft Hacking talk at HITBSecConf2013 - Amsterdam, you definitely want to read this blog post he's put up.
One of the problems I faced while preparing my talk for HITB 2013 Amsterdam, was that many background knowledge on aviation and aircraft systems was necesary in order to understand what I am going to explain. On most security conferences, the talks target well known systems and networks so all the necessary knowledge is already known by the attendees but in this case it is not the situation.
As I have a time limit, and I can't give all the details on the aviation systems, protocols and terminology employed, I would like to explain in advance some of those elements, so the attendees can better understand the talk and its contents.
Most of this data is directly extracted from the Wikipedia, and additional references are provided at the end. This post does not mean to be extensive, but just to give some basic background and offer some resources for further learning to whom may be interested in going deeper.
