Security Risk: Drones can hack

In three years, the American air space for civilian use drones to be opened. However, scientists are worried about terrorist attacks. The University of Texas has now demonstrated how easy it is to hijack the drones.
Utilizing a one GPS spoofer, its cost amount to only around 1,000 €. With the device it is possible to emit noise that manipulate the information of the navigation satellites. The drone can be misled in this way with little effort put under the control of the hacker. The hack works because use of civil UAVs not encrypted GPS signal.

For the investigator Todd Humphreys, a professor at the University of Texas is no question that improved protection of the drone is absolutely necessary: ​​"I would never live anywhere populate these drones to heaven." Should He estimates that in five to ten years 30,000 civilian drones in U.S. airspace is on the move: "Any of them could be a weapon." The result of the experiment have Todd Humphreys and his research team have the Authority Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Homeland Security (Department of Homeland Security, DHS ) presented.