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A former employee of the Chinese drone manufacturer DJI was sentenced to prison for leaking the private keys of the company’s repositories at GitHub, as reported by specialists in cybersecurity. The company’s private keys were exposed to the public at the beginning of 2018, because of this, any user with access to the key, and […]
It seems like social media giant Facebook hasn’t got over its drone obsession! After giving up its drone project back in June 2018, the company now appears to be in talks with Airbus for drone tests in Australia. According to a document (thanks to Australian Freedom of Information Act) acquired by Netzpolitik, Facebook, with the use of Airbus’s […]
Researchers at security firm CheckPoint identified a vulnerability in the website and apps of the popular consumer drone manufacturer DJI. The vulnerability was revealed on Thursday after DJI managed to fix the flaw. Though, it took DJI around six months to fully address the security flaw. If exploited, the attacker could have gained free access […]
civilians all over the globe. Go to any beautiful beach destination and you will find people flying drones in a bid to take amazing aerial shots. The number of drones has increased exponentially over the years. It’s estimated that by the year 2020 there will be a whopping 7 million drones in the United States […]
Similar to questionable stingray devices, DRT’s operations nicknamed “dirt boxes” mimic cellphone pillars, relating to every smartphone within a specific area. Because they combine with all smartphones, it’s nearly irritable to avoid collecting private data from people who aren’t suspects but just appear to be in the target area. Privacy advocates have continued derided cell-site […]
Security Expert Showed Way of ‘Weaponizing the BBC Micro Bit’ at DEF CON 2017 to take over drones. The Micro Bit (also referred to as BBC Micro Bit or Micro:bit) is an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. The very hyped Micro:bit computer board from BBC is […]
Jimmy Causey, a 46-year-old inmate, captured for kidnapping a lawyer, escaped from the South Carolina prison using some sophisticated technology setup that involved the use of drones and cell phones to coordinate the escape. Causey used more advanced methods than last time The authorities say that Causey escaped some years ago as well using some […]
Izumi Nakamitsu, chief of UN’s Disarmament Affairs addressed the rising issue of how terrorists can access weapons of mass destruction using technologies such as 3D-printing, drones, and the dark web to create and deliver tools for use in these weapons. The dark web The dark web was highlighted in particular as the primary enabler of […]
There is no doubt that drones have become a big thing for those that have traditionally loved flying model aircraft. With many cool features including GPS and cameras, they are superior in many ways to model planes, mainly because they are more controllable and do not need a long runway to take off and land. […]
Not a jammer, device lets hackers fly drones and lock out original pilot.The advent of inexpensive consumer drones has generated a novel predicament for firefighters, law-enforcement officers, and ordinary citizens who encounter crafts they believe are interfering with their safety or privacy. In a series of increasingly common events—several of themchronicled by Ars—drones perceived as […]
Drones are known for killing people but this one actually saves lives. Swimming is an art and not everyone can master it immediately.. it takes time. Some people find it very difficult to stay afloat and to help amateur swimmers, Microdrones in collaboration with the German Lifeguard Association has developed a low-flying drone. According to […]
You can now walk along with this drone and it will take selfies for you! We all know that while using a selfie stick we look kind of dumb. It seriously seems pretty embarrassing when you are using a selfie stick in public. But the days of this embarrassment are numbered now since Zero Zero […]
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement’s main, expert hacker has been indicted by an Israeli judge. The Palestinian hacker, Maaged Ben Juwad Oydeh was formally charged by the judge at the Beersheba District Court after he was arrested by Israeli forces earlier this year. Oydeh has been accused of several offenses […]
A security researcher “hacker” has reportedly found a way to hijack a high-end drone using parts assembled to the tune of $40. Mr. Nils Rodday, a security researcher, announced at the RSA security conference in San Francisco that it was possible to hijack a $30000 drone from a mile away just by intercepting its wifi […]
NASA has denied that its drone was hijacked by any hacking group — Earlier a group on Facebook claimed to have hijacked a high-profile NASA drone. On Wednesday, NASA rejected the claim made by an Anonymous-linked group on Sunday regarding the hacking of one of its high-profile drones. The space agency stated that the 250GB […]
To date, it has always been reported that drones can potentially be hacked and a few cases where they, in fact, had been successfully hacked. What we were never privy to were the detailed images of those hacked drones. However, thanks to The Intercept, this is no longer the case. The Intercept revealed that the […]
Pentagon has agreed that it will be extending official military honours to remote military personnel like military hackers or drone pilots after a plan to have their own medals was dismissed, a report from NYT. When the Defence Department’s 2013 plan to honour remote military personnel like drone pilots and military hackers with separate medals […]
The drug cartels are hacking US Border Patrol drones in order to cross the US-Mexican border illegally. It has been reported by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency that drug traffickers have hacked their UAVs to cross the US-Mexican border illegally. UAVs (unmanned air vehicles) are being […]
Japanese company “Secom” has developed a drone that could be tough to handle for intruders trying to escape after committing any crime. This new drone is designed to autonomously detect suspect and also to take their snapshots while they are trying to escape from the crime scene. It also has led lights installed for night operations […]
How many of you have watched the sci-fi film’s sequel “Back to the Future II”? Do you know the time machine on that movie landed on Wednesday 21st October 2015 which is today? You must be wondering why we are talking about that movie? Well, we need to evaluate the 30 years of inventions and if […]
Powerup and French drone-maker firm Parrot collaborated together to create a revolutionary new gadget that easily converts something as insignificant like a paper airplane into a virtual-reality, electronically controlled device. The developers attached remote controlled engines and a camera to the paper plane in order to transform it into a powerful drone, explained PowerUp. To offer […]