{"id":146,"date":"2015-03-24T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.themegrill.com\/colormag\/?p=146"},"modified":"2019-10-25T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T10:31:37","slug":"drones-being-used-to-monitor-wordcup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempstry.net\/index.php\/2015\/03\/24\/drones-being-used-to-monitor-wordcup\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones being used by Hackers to commit crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

We see them everywhere. People are flying them all over the place, but there\u2019s a more serious, nefarious side to what should just be fun.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hackers are turning drones into devices that steal our personal information.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s got a bunch of peripherals\u2026to hack basically anything over the air,\u201d Francis Brown, co-founder of Bishop Fox, said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brown works to find holes in other companies\u2019 security systems. He says drones are now taking the bad guys where they\u2019re usually not allowed to go.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnything<\/span> within the vicinity that\u2019s speaking over the air that\u2019s kind of an ideal platform to kind of just go land to do a drive by outside the window or go land on the roof and then hack something over the air, Brown said.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hackers attach a little computer called a Raspberry Pi to a drone. It looks like a big computer chip and then it\u2019s just flown around.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese quad copters basically are little laptops with hacker tools on them,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

Wireless, Blue Tooth, and R-F-I-D signals are all vulnerable, these drone can access places a normal hacker couldn\u2019t even reach.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuildings that are centrally located inside a corporate campus. There are you know near the street buildings where you couldn\u2019t necessarily see the Wi-Fi from the parking lot because it\u2019s a secure campus lesser or a wireless in a conference room on the 50th floor that witnesses are going to get from the ground,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

So how often is this happening? Brown says it\u2019s tough to track, because companies are embarrassed to say if they\u2019ve been hacked this way. He says the threat alone, should be a wake up call.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the biggest advantages from a hacker\u2019s perspective is that it reduces your chances of getting caught is even more brazen,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

Brown says anyone could be targeted, from an office park to your neighborhood block preventing drones from being there is extremely difficult. Signal blockers in those frequencies to stop the drones from flying are illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We see them everywhere. People are flying them all over the place, but there\u2019s a more serious, nefarious side to what should just be fun. Hackers are turning drones into devices that steal our personal information. \u201cIt\u2019s got a bunch of peripherals\u2026to hack basically anything over the air,\u201d Francis Brown, co-founder of Bishop Fox, said. … <\/p>\n