Report: Drones vulnerable to hacking
Unmanned drones are vulnerable to computer hacking that could allow outside force to control them, according to new research.
Unmanned drones are vulnerable to computer hacking that could allow outside force to control them, according to a Fox News report.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have built and successfully used a device called a “spoofer” that re-directs a drone’s GPS navigation to make it crash into a target.
A similar use of GPS manipulation may have caused a U.S. drone to crash in Iran last December.
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