The contest will be held in October at the Hack in the Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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The loopholes in the flight management system were detailed by Mr Teso during a presentation to the Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam.

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Teusink demonstrated at the Hack In The Box talk how he could run a Metasploit exploit on the victim PC with just a few keystrokes to remotely hijack the machine.

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