The drone recently downed in Iran really was spying on the country. Chris Lawrence reportsU.S. officials confirm what the drone was really doing inside Iranian airspace. Chris Lawrence reports. View full post on The Cyber Wars
Highly secret stealth drone RQ-170 downed in Iran
NBC News: “Drone that crashed in Iran last Thursday was on a mission for the CIA, and is now in the hands of Iran’s military” Iranian PressTV says that it happened on Dec. 4 : “On Sunday December 4, the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry… View full…
US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux
The control of US military spy drones appears to have shifted from Windows to Linux following an embarrassing malware infection. Ground control systems at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, which commands the killer unmanned aircraft, became infected with a virus last September. In a statement at the time the…
Video: Obama asks Iran to return downed drone
The White House has asked the Iranian government for the drone that was downed in their country as military officials claim they have retrieved the data necessary to reproduce the aircraft. Scott Pelley reports. View full post on obama hacking government – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on…
Video: Obama asks Iran to return downed drone
The White House has asked the Iranian government for the drone that was downed in their country as military officials claim they have retrieved the data necessary to reproduce the aircraft. Scott Pelley reports. View full post on obama hacking government – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on…
Iranian Engineer Says GPS Hack Tricked Drone into Landing (December 15, 2011)
According to a report in The Christian Science Monitor, the US military drone aircraft that was captured by Iran last week may have been forced to make its unplanned landing in that country through a GPS spoofing attack……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber…
Spy drone GPS spoofing claims doubted by security analysts
Reports that Iranian electronic warfare experts may have succeeded in intercepting and capturing a sophisticated US spy drone has been received with some skepticism by security analysts. While it is certainly possible that the drone was electronically ambushed as reported, more details are needed to know what exactly might have…
Iran Claims to Have Hacked U.S. Drone
The Iranians say they leveraged a known vulnerability in the drone’s GPS system to trick it into landing in the country. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
US spy drone ‘tricked’ into Iran landing by GPS spoofing
The US RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone that was recently captured and displayed by Iranian authorities may have been tricked into landing in Iran by electronic warfare experts using GPS spoofing techniques. An unconfirmed report in the Christian Science Monitor yesterday quoted an unnamed Iranian engineer as saying that experts in…
Obama says US has asked for return of downed drone, but doesn’t expect Iran to comply
WASHINGTON (MCT) — The Obama administration has sent a formal diplomatic request asking Iran to return the radar-evading drone aircraft that crashed on a CIA spying mission this month, but U.S. officials say they don’t expect Iran will comply. View full post on obama hacking government – Yahoo! News Search…