NYC cops skim for bombs using drone submarines

PoliceOne Staff NEW YORK — The New York Police Department’s Harbor Unit is relying more on unmanned submarine drones to help it skim riverbottoms and underbellies of boats for explosives and narcotics. Four Remote-operated vehicles (R.O.V.s) costing $75,000 each and similar to drones used in the military were purchased in…

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Report: Computer virus hit drone program

A computer virus that captures the strokes on a keyboard has infected networks used by pilots who control U.S. Air Force drones flown on the warfront, according to a published report. View full post on spyware jail – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security

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Trojan keylogger infests US drone airbase

The base from which the US Air Force directs its ‘remote-killing’ drone aircraft has become infested with Trojans, Wired magazine has reported. According to the story, an unidentified keylogger Trojan has infected the computer systems at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada used to fly the drones on missions over…

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Computer virus hits U.S. drone fleet

(WIRED) — A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air…

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