Airport X-Ray Scanners Are Vulnerable to Hackers

[Guest]

The TSA's computerized airport-screening equipment is anything but secure from hackers, one researcher found.

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[Darkk]

Wouldn't be surprised if TSA told him to "Forget what you saw and don't worry about it since it's totally secure."

 

[Simon Mackay]

A problem we are seeing a lot of is less interest in keeping the software up-to-date on "dedicated-purpose" machines like the Rapiscan or the Kronos devices. This is although the organisations like the TSA buy or lease them for a princely sum per unit, run them for years on end and rely on them to perform the organisation's essential duties.
Personally I would encourage a different culture with software maintenance for these devices such as a "secure by design, always updated" approach like with most computer operating systems.