Investigators have already recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of the American Airlines plane that ...

In the case of closed-source software, the white hats arguably have the offsetting advantage that they at least can see the source code, and peek inside the black box, while the attackers cannot.

Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, has supported standardizing black-box data, so accident investigators can use it to improve the safety of future vehicles and crashes.

It's one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash: The so-called “black box ... which can sometimes provide hints about the cause of a mechanical failure ...

What Can the 'Black Box' Tell Us About Plane Crashes ... which can sometimes provide hints about the cause of a mechanical failure on a later flight. An initial assessment of the data is provided ...