Danger with drones getting hacked: it will get worse before it gets better

July 7, 2017 4 Comments

With the recent news of a drone causing chaos at Gatwick airport, hacking IoT devices has resurfaced as a topic of discussion especially regarding the security issues should a multitude of devices be hacked.

In the optimal situation, there is no way that anyone should be able to access, much less hijack, the critical functions of an IoT device such as a drone. While the power for destruction from just one drone may seem paltry, directing these drones in large numbers at a target is a very real, and dangerous, possibility – as confirmed by this news.

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Dronejacking – a disaster waiting to happen.

March 17, 2017 4 Comments

By James O’Malley – original post at https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2017/03/drones-wide-open-to-hijack-threats

Drones wide open to hijack threats

Don’t let that flying drone out of your sight: you never know where it might turn up next.

Last year, customers of Amazon in Cambridge began signing up for a novel delivery option.  A 25kg drone, which is able to fly up to 10 miles gripping a book-sized package underneath, took just 13 minutes to fly from the warehouse nearby, landing briefly to drop the order on a delivery mat marked with the distributor’s single-letter logo in the customer’s rear garden.

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Inadequate IoT Security is Setting Regulators on Collision Course with the Entire Open Source Movement

March 16, 2016 2 Comments

open-source-softwareIt was Charles Dickens’ much celebrated novel Oliver Twist that first popularized the phrase “the law is an ass.” It resonated far and wide for people who viewed the British legal system of the time as unjust and at odds with common sense. Now, no one is suggesting that the highly evolved legal and regulatory system we have in the modern United States is anything like the situation Dickens described 177 years ago. But it remains that rules set by regulators and lawmakers have consistently failed to keep up with the pace of technological change – and there’s a real danger they could now threaten the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded computing.

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