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Students hijack drone in midair for $1000 wager
Texas: On a dare, Texas college researchers hacked into and hijacked a drone of the US Homeland Security before the eyes of the officials operating it.
Using a technique called spoofing where a signal from hackers imitates the one sent to the drones on-board GPS, the researchers managed to take control of a small but powerful drone in mid-air.
The hostile takeover of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) owned by the college was done before the wary eyes of DHS officials, Fox News reported.
During the experiment conducted at the University of Texas stadium, the small red drone soared into the sky following a clear set of commands entered into its computer.
Shortly after, the aircraft veered to the side, making it obvious that it was no longer following its original orders. Then, the drone hurtled toward the ground as if given a self-destruct command and was saved in the last moment.
And the hijacking was just for a $1,000 wager.
But the incident has unnerved American Homeland security officials, as the spoofing has made it possible for anyone with a $1,000 and a plan to turn a harmless UAV into a missile and crash it into a building.
The hijackers team led by professor Todd Humphreys at Austin Radionavigation Laboratory said his team for a few hundred dollars was able to build the most sophisticated spoofing system yet that tricked the drone into following a new set of commands.
Spoofing a GPS receiver on a UAV is just another way of hijacking a plane, Humphreys said. PTI
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looks like the same technique used in the Sentinel hacking by Iran...anyway,i think if you throw $1000,a whole Reaper will be yours..i'm little short on cash else i'd try for sure..
Texas: On a dare, Texas college researchers hacked into and hijacked a drone of the US Homeland Security before the eyes of the officials operating it.
Using a technique called spoofing where a signal from hackers imitates the one sent to the drones on-board GPS, the researchers managed to take control of a small but powerful drone in mid-air.
The hostile takeover of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) owned by the college was done before the wary eyes of DHS officials, Fox News reported.
During the experiment conducted at the University of Texas stadium, the small red drone soared into the sky following a clear set of commands entered into its computer.
Shortly after, the aircraft veered to the side, making it obvious that it was no longer following its original orders. Then, the drone hurtled toward the ground as if given a self-destruct command and was saved in the last moment.
And the hijacking was just for a $1,000 wager.
But the incident has unnerved American Homeland security officials, as the spoofing has made it possible for anyone with a $1,000 and a plan to turn a harmless UAV into a missile and crash it into a building.
The hijackers team led by professor Todd Humphreys at Austin Radionavigation Laboratory said his team for a few hundred dollars was able to build the most sophisticated spoofing system yet that tricked the drone into following a new set of commands.
Spoofing a GPS receiver on a UAV is just another way of hijacking a plane, Humphreys said. PTI
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looks like the same technique used in the Sentinel hacking by Iran...anyway,i think if you throw $1000,a whole Reaper will be yours..i'm little short on cash else i'd try for sure..
