For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the GPS navigation system of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, can be commandeered by an outside source. The team, from the University of Texas at Austin, says their GPS guidance hack could influence the planned federal mandate to allow thousands of civilian drones into U.S. […]
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GPS location systems under increasing attack
A monitoring group in the UK has detected dozens of GPS jamming incidents as well as the first case of GPS spoofing technology being used to fool computer navigation systems. They warn of looming chaos in transportation systems and financial networks and predict a major incident involving ships in the English Channel over the next […]