EP20 – The Garmin Ransomware Attack; Airbus Makes Autonomous Takeoff & Landing; Sabrewing EVTOL
In this episode we chat about the scary ransomware attack that sent Garmin scrambling to get their systems back up. Airbus announced successful autonomous takeoffs and landings; the Sabrewing EVTOL that will haul cargo is getting some press; And Lilium explains why they're no longer going after the short-range air taxi market--is it perhaps not a viable market? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Full Transcript: EP20 - The Garmin Ransomware Attack; Airbus Makes Autonomous Takeoff & Landing; Sabrewing EVTOL for Cargo Dan: This episode is brought to you by Weather Guard, Lightning Tech. At Weather Guard, we support design engineers and make lightning protection easy. You are listening to the Struck Podcast. I'm Dan Blewett. Allen Hall: I'm Allen hall. Dan: And here on Struck, we talk about everything. Aviation, aerospace engineering, and lightning protection. All right, welcome back. This is the struck podcast. This is the big 2-0 Alan--episode 20. How you doing? Allen Hall: Great, Dan sighting, another great week of news and aviation, you know, it seems slow out there and not literal airplanes are flying. Their aviation business is busy. Dan: Yeah. So today, uh, we're going to cover a bunch of different topics. So in our new section, um, what seems to be a ransomware attack at Garmin? Pretty scary stuff. Uh, we're gonna chat a little bit about Airbus. Um, They're autonomous taxi, takeoff done some landing tests, really interesting stuff there, and a little bit of a scary storm incident out of Russia with a quite old AN-24 aircraft. Uh, we're gonna talk a little bit about the EPA and some potential, um, environmental limits. They're going to set on aircraft. It seems like so much missions testing. And lastly, a couple different, uh, EVTOL's, uh, so Sabrewing, they've got some interesting stuff going along with cargo transport, and lastly, a pretty interesting letter from Lilium about their view on really short trip, uh, flights. So how let's get started with Garmin. So they haven't said the words ransom, but this seems textbook ransomware, which is really scary for any business owner. When you start to hear these, especially with bigger companies, but what's your take here with the garments situation. Allen Hall: We've been seeing a lot more ransomware attacks in aerospace in the last six months to a year. And it's not surprising that Garmin was the focus of one of those ransomware attacks, just because they're one of the more prominent electronic, uh, highly integrated aviation AVN X companies, but a lot of technology and probably a lot information. On servers. And so it's not surprising that, that they would be a, an attack point and plus they're just a kind of a global company now. So there'd be a lot of ways to infiltrate them. And it kind of sounds like there's listening, just watching some of the news reports that it was via. Um, You know, some sort of email that triggered the, the system to go haywire, but when those events happen, what's what, what I'm hearing from the engineers from different companies, not, not just garment specific is that everything gets shut down. So they lose all the internet phones, internet. Connectivity, all access to drawings and everything that an engineer would need are basically taken offline. So it shuts down the company. And if there's any, if it is a true ransomware where they're asking for money, it has to be a big trade off, obviously. And then what, what seems to be happening at most of these places is a companies are calling the FBI. They're not playing. They bring in the federal investigators immediately. To one, try to help them figure out what they need to do next, but to. Stop it from happening to somebody else because this sort of nonsense has got to stop. ...