Now Aerial cyber attack!!!!r u safe anyway?
Now Aerial cyber attack!!!!r u safe anyway?
"Imagine
sitting in a cofee house with your laptop and chatting with your dear
friend.....and then calling a friend on your phone and then paying your
bill and moving out for ur regular work"
1. Now imagine some thing u
never imagined.....all what you chatted and all what you spoke on phone
in the cafe house is compromised....all saved at a location unknown to
you....
2. Two security professionals
proved as much at the Black Hat cybersecurity convention in Las
Vegas.This has been made possible after investing a few thousand bucks, a
tool box and some technical skill like these two security
professionals,Richard Perkins and Mike Tassey have done.These two guys
have assembled a small, unmanned airplane that is capable of some truly
remarkable and potentially disastrous hacks.
3. Perkins is a security
engineer supporting the U.S. government and Tassey is a security
consultant for Wall Street firms. But after work, the long-time buddies
would take off their cyber attack prevention hats, put on their evil
hacker thinking caps, and build their airplane in Perkins' garage.
4. The plane can wreak lots of havoc.
- For instance, it can fly over a
Starbucks (SBUX, Fortune 500) and steal the personal information of
everyone connected to the coffee shop's free Wi-Fi network. It can
intercept your cell phone conversations and even reroute your calls to
another number. It can trace the location of specific people and follow
them home.
- Perkins and Tassey spent a
total of just $6,190 to build the plane. They made a point to keep it
relatively cheap and to buy components that were readily available to
prove that literally anyone could make one."You don't need a Ph.D. from
MIT to do this," said Perkins. "There are no custom parts, it was
fabricated using hand tools, and very little coding is required. All you
need is dedicated people."
5. Thanks CNN
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