NATO missile system hacked remotely by ‘foreign source’

NATO missile system hacked remotely by ‘foreign source’ | Pamela Geller
Tick tock, tick tock ….

One commenter articulated the catastrophic implications this way: “The implications of this allegation from the German Magazine are horrific. 
If it is possible to ‘remotely’ access the command and control system of a Patriot system deployed operationally in the field then it stands to reason that someone can do the same to similar air defense systems deployed. Such implications surely will now require urgent attention from various governments / agencies currently investigating a number of high profile aviation accidents which to date appear to have defied logic and resulted in confusion for all parties alike.”

“NATO missile system hacked remotely by ‘foreign source’,” By Joseph Fitsanakis, Intel News,  July 10, 2015 (thanks to Todd)

A Patriot missile system stationed in Turkey by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was allegedly hacked by a remote source, according to reports. German magazine Behörden Spiegel said this week that the hacked missile system is owned and operated by the German Army. It was deployed along the Turkish-Syrian border in early 2013, after Ankara requested NATO assistance in protecting its territory from a possible spillover of the civil war in neighboring Syria.

The Patriot surface-to-air missile system was initially built for the United States Army by American defense contractor Raytheon in the 1980s, but has since been sold to many of Washington’s NATO allies, including Germany. The Patriot system consists of stand-alone batteries, each composed of six launchers and two radars. The radars, which are aimed at spotting and targeting incoming missiles, communicate with the launchers via a computer system. The latter was hijacked for a brief period of time by an unidentified hacker, said Behörden Spiegel, adding that the perpetrators of the electronic attack managed to get the missile system to “perform inexplicable commands”. The magazine gave no further details....

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