Hacker Hijacks a Police Drone from 2 Km Away with $40 Kit

A researcher has demonstrated how easy it is to steal high-end drones, commonly deployed by government agencies and police forces, from 2 kilometres away with the help of less than $40 worth of hardware. The attack was developed by IBM security researcher Nils Rodday, who recently presented his...

Drone Application Privacy, Security Shortcomings

This Threatpost op-ed is part of a series of guest contributions from computer security research and policy experts. Today, we feature Kaspersky Lab’s Kurt Baumgartner. Boulder, Colorado’s Open Space and Mountain Parks winter photo gallery displays parts of the beautiful and productive 45,000-plu...

NSA’s Top-Secret SKYNET May Be Killing Thousands of Innocent Civilians

So what do you expect from an Artificially intelligent program run by the government intelligence agency? Possibly killing innocent people. The real-life SKYNET, the fictional malevolent artificial intelligence in the Terminator movies, run by the US National Security Agency NSA is a surveillance...

NASA HACKED! AnonSec tried to Crash $222 Million Drone into Pacific Ocean

Once again the Red Alarm had been long wailed in the Security Desk of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA. Yes! This time, a serious hacktivism had been triggered by the Hacking group named "AnonSec" who made their presence in the cyber universe by previous NASA Hacks. The...

How Spy Agencies Hacked into Israeli Military Drones to Collect Live Video Feeds

--- Featured Image Only. See Original leaked images below. In a joint surveillance program, the US intelligence agency NSA National Security Agency and the British intelligence agency GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters hacked into, decrypted, and tracked live video feeds of Israeli...

Google Wants to Fly Drones Over Your Head to Deliver High Speed 5G Internet

Would you enjoy If Drones hovering outside your window or above your head, just because it is offering High-Speed Internet Service? Most Americans may simply prefer to "Shoot Down" unwelcome items. Well, Google is working on a similar secret project, codenamed Project Skybender, to beam faster...

The vulnerability of the WhatUp Gold monitoring system allows attackers to carry out attacks based on SQL injections.

The vulnerability of the DroneDeleteOldMeasurements implementation in the WhatUp Gold IT-infrastructure monitoring system is related to the lack of verification of the reliability of XML objects’ sequences. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, operating remotely, to carry out...

Another ISIS Hacker Killed by U.S Drone Strike in Syria

A British-educated businessman who later joined Islamic State ISIS militant group in Syria has been killed in a US drone strike. Siful Haque Sujan, a Bangladesh-born man, was killed on 10 December 2015 by a US drone strike near Raqqa, Syria. Sujan has been described as one of the ISIS's top...

This is How Tokyo Police Catching Rogue Drones in the Sky

So how do you catch rogue drones that take your sky? With another Giant Drone, of course! This is exactly how the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is catching unwanted and potentially dangerous drones flying over the city, according to Japan Today. The department is launching an anti-drone...

drone-zaak.nl XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.drone-zaak.nl/denver-dch-330-quadcopterprettyPhotormsg0d/// Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 23.02.2016 Latest check for patch:| 23.02.2016 20:23 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 1697493 Google...

First Ever Anti-Drone Weapon that Shoots Down UAVs with Radio Waves

While the US military continues to build more advanced unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs, popularly known as Drones, the US company Battelle has developed a shoulder-mounted rifle to deal with unwanted drones flying around. Dubbed DroneDefender, the revolutionary weapon specifically designed to targe...

How A Drone Can Infiltrate Your Network by Hovering Outside the Building

Imagine you are sitting in your office and working on something confidential. Once you are done, you send a command to print that document. But, What if... ...the whole confidential document send to a hacker attacking from the air? Sounds pity but may be your Boss fires you immediately if that...

British-born ISIS Hacker Killed in US Drone Strike in Syria

Remember Team Poison? The hackers group that was active in 2012, and was known for gaining access to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair's address book and then publishing information from it. The British hacker who actually obtained the Prime Minister's address book and was jailed for six month...

Two Arrested For Dropping Drugs And Porn Into Prison Using A Drone

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs, popularly known as Drones, is rapidly transforming the way crimes are conducted, and this story helps prove this right. Maryland State Police arrested two men – Thaddeus Shortz and Keith Brian Russell – suspected of allegedly trying to smuggle drugs and...

How Drones Can Find and Hack Internet-of-Things Devices From the Sky

Security researchers have developed a Flying Drone with a custom-made tracking tool capable of sniffing out data from the devices connected to the Internet – better known as the Internet-of-things. Under its Internet of Things Map Project, a team of security researchers at the Texas-based firm...

OnePlus DR-1 — World's Smallest $19.99 Drone

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus who recently announced that the company is planning to launch its latest flying drone, OnePlus DR-1, saying it would be a "Game Changer." There have already been some speculations about a drone from OnePlus circulating on the Internet, but now the company has...

MalDrone — First Ever Backdoor Malware for Drones

The use of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs called Drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. Drones were once used for land surveillance, Delivering Pizza's, then equipped with bombs that changed the way nations conduct war and last year, these hovering drones were also used to hack...

Ex-NSA Director Admits 'We Kill People Based On Metadata' with Drone Strike

We All now know about the existence of the extensive metadata collection program by U.S National Security Agency NSA, which creates an intimate repository of our lives -- whom we love, whom we’re friends with, where we work, whom we call, when we you, how long we talk over the calls, and how ofte...

Snoopy Drone Can Hack Your Smartphones

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles UAVS called Drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. Drones were once used for land surveillance, Delivering Pizza's, then equipped with bombs that changed the way nations conduct war and now these hovering drones are ready to hack your Smartphones...

How to Skyjack Drones for $400

UPDATE–The skies may soon be full of drones–some run by law enforcement agencies, others run by intelligence agencies and still others delivering novels and cases of diapers from Amazon. But a new project by a well-known hacker Samy Kamkar may give control of some drones to anyone with $400 and a...