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Subject: [ISN] Here's How You Hack a Military Drone
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2015-04-28 8:48:15
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1504280848040.26867 () infosecnews ! org
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http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2015/04/heres-how-you-hack-drone/111229/
By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
April 27, 2015
Research studies on drone vulnerabilities published in recent years
essentially provided hackers a how-to guide for hijacking unmanned
aircraft, an Israeli defense manufacturer said Monday.
A real-life downing of a CIA stealth drone by Iranians occurred a month
after one such paper was published, noted Esti Peshin, director of cyber
programs for Israel Aerospace Industries, a major defense contractor. In
December 2011, the Christian Science Monitor reported that Iran navigated
a CIA unmanned aerial vehicle safely down to the ground by manipulating
the aircraft's GPS coordinates.
The 2011 study, co-authored by Nils Ole Tippenhauer of ETH Zurich and
other ETH and University of California academics, was titled "The
Requirements for Successful GPS Spoofing Attacks." The scholars detailed
how to mimic GPS signals to fool GPS receivers that aid navigation.
"It's a PDF fileā¦ essentially, a blueprint for hackers," Peshin said.
[...]
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