Hackers Can Hijack Parrot Drones And Crash Them
Ryan Satterfield of the security consulting firm Planet Zuda demonstrated the security flaw in the drone from Parrot in a presentation at Def Con in Las Vegas. Satterfield stated that the hacking can be done by exploiting the Parrot A.R. drone’s built-in Wi-Fi and an open telnet port on the drone’s implementation of the BusyBox real-time operating system. In the demonstration, Satterfield was successful in getting root access to the controller, and killing the processes controlling flight—causing the drone to drop to the ground....