Futurama: Game of Drones - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Exported ContentProvider vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Futurama: Game of Drones published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Dutch Police Training Eagles to Take Down Rogue Drones

You may have seen number of viral entertainment videos on the Internet, titled: Hawk attacks Drone! Angry Bird takes down Quadcopter, and the best one… Eagle attack: Drone Kidnapped by two Eagles, ...showing eagles, not-so-natural predators, attacking and bringing down drones when someone with a...

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...

Design Flaws Make Drones Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks

In the past, The Hacker News THN reported about various activities surrounding Drones. Whether it was the development of the first backdoor for drones MalDrone, or Weaponized drones getting legal, or Drones hacking smartphones. And now the reports depict... Security Researcher has showcased a...

Weaponized Drones For Police Now Legal In North Dakota

Drones also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs have contributed enormously by acting as an interface for conducting surveillance operations, or delivering products, or attacking a war site to name a few. We have seen Drones like 'Snoopy' that are capable to intercept data from your Smartphone...

Hacking Team and Boeing Built Cyber Weaponized Drones to Spy on Targets

The leaked internal emails from the Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team have revealed that the spyware company developed a robotic aircraft designed to attack computers and smartphone devices through Wi-Fi networks. Over a year ago, some security researchers developed a drone calle...

These Laser Beams Will Offer Free Internet to the World from the Sky

During a wide-ranging online question-and-answer session on his Facebook page Tuesday, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted some wild things for Future. It includes: Telepathy Technology, the ability for humans to talk to each other with their minds. Laser Beams, used to transmit data fr...

Drones Spying on Cell Phone Users for Advertisers

Do you know, apart from United States National Security Agency NSA, Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and law enforcement, a few advertising companies are also monitoring unsuspecting users' cell phone data with the help of the unmanned aerial vehicles UAVS called Drones. Yes it’s True! A...

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...

Honeypot Deployment Made Easy: Beeswarm

Beeswarm is an active IDS project that provides easy configuration, deployment and management of honeypots and clients. The system operates by luring the hacker into the honeypots by setting up a deception infrastructure where deployed drones communicate with honeypots and intentionally leak...

Exploiting GPS vulnerability to Hijack Ships, Airplanes with $3000 Equipments

The GPS expert Todd Humphreys, professors at the University of Texas, demonstrated that just using a cheap apparatus composed by a small antenna, an electronic GPS “spoofer” built in $3,000 and with a laptop, it is possible to exploit GPS vulnerability to obtain control of sophisticated navigatio...

Chinese Hackers targeting American Drones under Operation Beebus

FireEye experts have been tracking the Operation Beebus campaign for a few months now, and new same gang of hackers are being blamed for a set of recently discovered spear-phishing attacks that aim to steal information related to American drones. These attacks exploited previously discovered...

Chinese Hackers targeting American Drones under Operation Beebus

FireEye experts have been tracking the Operation Beebus campaign for a few months now, and new same gang of hackers are being blamed for a set of recently discovered spear-phishing attacks that aim to steal information related to American drones. These attacks exploited previously discovered...

Drones can be hijacked by terrorist, Researchers says Vulnerability Exist

Drones can be hijacked by terrorist, Researchers says Vulnerability Exist Fox News is reporting that researchers say that terrorists or drug gangs, with the right kind of equipment could turn the drones into "suicide" weapons. A University of Texas researcher illustrated that fact in a series of...

The Pirate Bay Buys Greek Airspace for Launching Low Orbit Server Drones

The Pirate Bay Buys Greek Airspace for Launching Low Orbit Server Drones Few days back we reported that, One of the world's largest BitTorrent sites "The Pirate Bay" is going to put servers on GPS-controlled aircraft drones in order to evade authorities who are looking to shut the site down. Most...

Microsoft censors The Pirate Bay links on Windows Live Messenger

Microsoft censors The Pirate Bay links on Windows Live Messenger Microsoft has decided to block access to The Pirate Bay from Windows Live Messenger. When users try to send an instant message to a friend with a link from The Pirate Bay, Windows Live Messenger displays a warning, saying that the...

The Pirate Bay plans Low Orbit Server Drones to beat #Censorship

The Pirate Bay plans Low Orbit Server Drones to beat Censorship One of the world's largest BitTorrent sites "The Pirate Bay" is going to put servers on GPS-controlled aircraft drones in order to evade authorities who are looking to shut the site down. In a Sunday blog post, The Pirate Bay announc...

Report: Virus Infects U.S. Military Drones

Wired’s ThreatLevel Blog reported on Friday that a computer virus is plaguing the systems used to remotely control the U.S. military’s fleet of unmanned drone aircraft. According to the report, which is unconfirmed, personnel at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada have been battling the persistent an...