Here's How You Hack a Military Drone

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

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 file… essentially, a blueprint for hackers," Peshin said.

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