{"id":31,"date":"2011-09-17T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T12:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2018-10-10T09:59:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T09:59:22","slug":"ar-drone-surveillance-with-3g-connection-instead-of-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/2011\/09\/17\/ar-drone-surveillance-with-3g-connection-instead-of-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"AR.Drone surveillance with 3G connection instead of wifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the computer science department at the Stevens Institute of Technology have added a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/425346\/the-next-wave-of-botnets-could-descend-from-the-skies\/\">3G-radio to an AR.Drone<\/a>. Because of the mobile hookup the AR.Drone can be controlled from a greater distance than the normal wifi connection and can be maneuvred into the range of a wifi-network. It could then attack that network and gain access to the network with the onboard software. And once it has gained access it could be used to issue commands to a botnet, acting as a command-and-control-server, powered by a small solar panel. Because the attackers would dial-in to the AR.Drone through the 3G-connection and the drone would us wifi to hookup to a third party network it would be much harder to find out who was responsible for the botnet attacks. You can read further details about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.stevens.edu\/~spock\/skynet\/\">SkyNET project<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/legacy\/events\/woot11\/tech\/final_files\/Reed.pdf\">the paper<\/a> that was presented by the researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/legacy\/events\/sec11\/tech\/\">USENIX Security Conference<\/a> in August. Spooky stuff if you ask me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the computer science department at the Stevens Institute of Technology have added a 3G-radio to an AR.Drone. Because of the mobile hookup the AR.Drone can be controlled from a greater distance than the normal wifi connection and can be maneuvred into the range of a wifi-network. It could then attack that network and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronehacks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}