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This Aerial Assault Drone Can Hack Computers Inside Walled Compounds

A drone is known for killing people or for its surveillance capabilities, but an aerial assault drone with hacking capabilities? Yes, you read that right! This Sunday, the collection of hackers got beefed up some more with the emergence of a drone equipped with weapons that could easily crack into your computer networks from a close range. […]

Hacking GPS Signals of Smartphones and In-Car Navigation System

We have already discussed that how our online connected world has become vulnerable to the hacking, which is causing our day-to-day things to turn into an easy to exploit objects. What’s more disturbing is that hackers are discovering cheaper and easily accessible possibilities to exploit these vulnerabilities. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/hacking-computers-data-radiofrequency/”]Shield Your PC from Radiofrequency, Hackers Can […]

Satellite Hack: Hackers Can Easily Crack Satellites, Controlling Your Cars and Phones

Short Bytes: Colby Moore, a researcher from cyber security firm Synack, has taught the attendees of Black Hat Conf. something that can help an expert to own your cellphones, cars and factories. Using cheap hardware, Moore demonstrated successful satellite hack by intercepting and decoding the unencrypted signals. We all know that GPS trackers send signals […]

Teen Tracking Lost Phone Using App Shot Dead

Teen shot dead while using mobile phone tracking app — All that it took to take the life of an innocent teen was a lost cell phone. CBC News reports that a Canadian teen Jeremy Cook left his mobile phone in a taxi. In order to retrieve the phone, the 18-year old boy used a location tracking […]

Adiós GPS: DARPA Working on Alternative Position Tracking Technology

Good Bye GPS — DARPA to present another position-tracking technology. The U.S government’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has prioritized the development of a more dependable and efficient real-time location tracking technology due to the incompetence of GPS in specific situations. The information was made public on Thursday by a document on DARPA’s research projects. […]