With drone technology being used in delivery of goods as well as google map charting, a chilling developing is in the works: Developing drones that intercept, hack and control other drones. Here is a short piece from rt (formerly Russia Today) that talks about the SkyJack platform created by the infamous Samy Kamkar: Samy Kamkar was once convicted of creating the Samy computer worm that knocked out MySpace back in 2005. Now he is devoting his tech skills to legit cyber-security research. The drone-hacking drone is his latest creation, which may send a chill to those inspired by Amazon’s recent announcement that it will use small remote-controlled aircraft for deliveries in a few years’ time. The drone platform called SkyJack that Kamkar created uses readily available components such as the Parrot AR.Drone quadcopter, a Raspberry Pi circuit board and open-source software he developed and published. SkyJack uses WiFi to detect other Parrot drones in its range. It then injects WiFi packets into the victim drone’s connection, making it de-authenticate from its remote controller, usually a smartphone, and authenticate in its place, taking it under control. The flying hacker is relatively cheap and quite simple to build. But it is only a question of time before a similar technique is used to hack into a broader set of targets or do things more sinister than just intercepting them. Misuse of the camera can raise privacy concerns, because unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can traverse property boundaries easily and quickly, said Matthew Peacock and Michael Johnstone, of Edith Cowan Universitys (ECU) School of Computer and Security Science, who tested Kamkar’s system. The misuse of small UAVs such as the Parrot by criminal or terrorist elements is a potential threat to critical infrastructure, they added.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:58:23 +0000
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