UT Professor: Civil UAVs Face Hacking Threat

When it comes to the takeoff of the UAV industry in the U.S., lawmakers have a new bogeyman: hackers. At a congressional hearing July 19, a University of Texas professor described how he and a group of his students hijacked an $80,000 Adaptive Flight Hornet Mini, the kind of small rotorcraft a local...

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