05 August 2011

A Homemade #Hacker Drone Snoops on #Wireless Networks

Meet WASP, the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform, one of the star attractions of this year's Black Hat conference for computer security professionals in Las Vegas.

It's a remote-controlled plane with a computer in its belly that can fly up to 400 feet above the ground, snoop quietly on wireless networks below and attack one if it wants to. It can also pretend to be a GSM cellphone tower, eavesdropping on calls and text messages that pass through.

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