The unconstitutional and oxymoronic Department of Homeland Security made a $1000 bet with researchers at the University of Texas at Austin that the security for flying drones was “unhackable” – and lost! Full article on Sophos. They took control of the drone with a homemade spoofer that cost $100 to build. Fortunately, this puts a crimp in the plans of DHS to fly drones over American soil, since this technology would allow a drone to be turned into a weapon. Darn!! Now they won’t be able to spy on me in my backyard!!
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I am a cybersecurity and IT instructor, cybersecurity analyst, pen-tester, trainer, and speaker. I am an owner of the WyzCo Group Inc. In addition to consulting on security products and services, I also conduct security audits, compliance audits, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. I also teach Cybersecurity Awareness Training classes. I work as an information technology and cybersecurity instructor for several training and certification organizations. I have worked in corporate, military, government, and workforce development training environments I am a frequent speaker at professional conferences such as the Minnesota Bloggers Conference, Secure360 Security Conference in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, the (ISC)2 World Congress 2016, and the ISSA International Conference 2017, and many local community organizations, including Chambers of Commerce, SCORE, and several school districts. I have been blogging on cybersecurity since 2006 at http://wyzguyscybersecurity.com