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...

Comment Crew's Operation Beebus Stealing Drone Tech

FireEye experts have been tracking the Operation Beebus campaign for a few months now, and their latest research suggests that whomever is responsible for the attacks is ultimately interested in stealing drone technology-related secrets. Operation Beebus is an APT-style attack campaign targeting...

New U.S. drone hacked by IRAN ? Reality or propaganda?

It's known, drones are privileged vehicles for reconnaissance and attacks, technology has achieved level of excellence and their use is largely diffused, that's why defense companies are providing new solution to make them increasingly effective. But the incredible amount of technological...

Iran Replicating Captured U.S. Drone RQ-170 Sentinel

Iran Replicating Captured U.S. Drone RQ-170 Sentinel Iranian military aerospace chief General Amir Ali Hajizadeh was quoted having said:"The Americans should be aware to what extent we have infiltrated the plane." Iran has broke the encryption codes and begun construction of a replica of the Unit...

Old-School Attack Nabs Joint UK-French Drone Plans

Forget about data stealing trojans. Unidentified thieves got a hold of top secret plans for a joint French-British drone aircraft project the old fashioned way: by snatching an executive’s briefcase at a Paris train station. An executive from the French defense contractor Dassault Aviation had th...

Iranian engineer hijack U.S. drone by GPS hack [Video Explanation]

An Iranian engineer working on the captured US drone has said that Iran exploited a weakness in the craft's navigation system to hijack it. The aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems GPS. The technique, known as "GPS...

Iranian engineer hijack U.S. drone by GPS hack [Video Explanation]

An Iranian engineer working on the captured US drone has said that Iran exploited a weakness in the craft's navigation system to hijack it. The aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems GPS. The technique, known as "GPS...

Report: Iran Claims To Have Hacked, Then Hijacked Stealth Drone

A report on the Web site of the Christian Science Monitor claims that Iran exploited a long-known vulnerability in the GPS navigation system of the U.S.’s RQ-170 Sentinel drone to force it into landing safely within Iran. The report, Thursday, cites an Iranian engineer that is part of a team that...

A Doomsday Worm - The Sputnik of 2011

We had an Interesting Article by "Paul F Renda " in our The Hacker News Magazine's November Edition. We would Like to share this article with our website readers also. You can Download November Issue Here. This is a theoretical prima to bring out a discussion about whether an Internet doomsday wo...

A Doomsday Worm - The Sputnik of 2011

We had an Interesting Article by "Paul F Renda" in our The Hacker News Magazine's November Edition. We would Like to share this article with our website readers also. You can Download November Issue Here. This is a theoretical prima to bring out a discussion about whether an Internet doomsday wor...

Report: Air Force Struggled For Weeks With Malware In Drone Fighter Systems

A troubling and persistent virus infection at Creech Air Force base was kept secret from senior Air Force cyber security officials for weeks while IT staff in the affected unit at Creech struggled to eradicate the infection, according to a report by Wired.com. The Air Force’s cyber security...

U.S. drones affected by Keylogger Virus

U.S. drones affected by Keylogger Virus A keylogger of some sort has infiltrated classified and unclassified computer systems at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, recording the keystrokes of pilots tasked with operating unmanned drone aircraft in Afghanistan and other international conflict zones...

U.S. drones affected by Keylogger Virus

U.S. drones affected by Keylogger Virus A keylogger of some sort has infiltrated classified and unclassified computer systems at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, recording the keystrokes of pilots tasked with operating unmanned drone aircraft in Afghanistan and other international conflict zones...