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Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones

December 17th, 2009 Grungeman Leave a comment Go to comments

This is great, the government pays 10-12 million per drone that does not use encryption to secure it’s data transmissions. The enemy has been capturing the data feeds and as such rendering the aircraft useless for surprise attacks.

WASHINGTON — Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.

Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes’ systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber — available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet — to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter…..

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