Unmanned aircraft controlled from a distance turned out to have dangerous gaps. A Texas hackers managed to find a way to control the aircraft. Unmanned aircraft or commonly known as drones, are widely used U.S. troops to perform a variety of military tasks. For example, to conduct reconnaissance in places that difficult to be reached.
But researchers from the University of Texas has just discovered that there are loopholes in the plane system, a hacker could have been hijacked by spoofing (scrambling) the existing GPS signals in the plane.
"I can not imagine what havoc can be inflicted from the GPS spoofer," said Todd Humphreys, leader of the research team.
Seeing such a dangerous hole, Humphreys and his team also showed the findings to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to do some experiments. Such as sending fake GPS coordinates to the unmanned aircraft.
The negative impact can vary, it is possible for criminals to control the plane then crashed with a building or other aircraft. Therefore, the researchers urge to immediately patch up the gap.
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