Hackers can Play Crucial Role in the World. News of Iran Jolted the world when They hacked GPS technology.
"The GPS navigation is the weakest point," the Iranian engineer told the Monitor, giving the most detailed description yet published of Iran's "electronic ambush" of the highly classified US drone. "By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain."
The “spoofing” technique that the Iranians used – which took into account precise landing altitudes, as well as latitudinal and longitudinal data – made the drone “land on its own where they wanted it to, without having to crack the remote-control signals and communications” from the US control center, says the engineer.
US Navy electronic warfare specialist Robert Densmore Said "Even modern combat-grade GPS [is] very susceptible” to manipulation, adding that it is “certainly possible” to recalibrate the GPS on a drone so that it flies on a different course