{"id":223066,"date":"2025-10-08T04:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/shield-activated-researchers-build-defense-to-protect-drones-from-cyberattacks"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:25:21","slug":"shield-activated-researchers-build-defense-to-protect-drones-from-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/shield-activated-researchers-build-defense-to-protect-drones-from-cyberattacks","title":{"rendered":"SHIELD activated: Researchers build defense to protect drones from cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shield-activated-researchers-build-defense-to-protect-drones-from-cyberattacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fooled into following a hacker\u2019s rogue commands, a drone is liable to do any number of things. Fly erratically. Speed up. Slow down. Hang suspended in the air. Reverse course. Take a new course. And, most dangerously: Crash.<\/p>\n<p>What the compromised drone cannot do, however, is regain control. Lost to its original assignment\u2014whether it\u2019s delivering a package, inspecting an aging bridge or monitoring the health of crops\u2014the machine is essentially useless.<\/p>\n<p>At FIU, cybersecurity researchers have developed a series of countermeasures to fight back mid-flight against hostile takeovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fooled into following a hacker\u2019s rogue commands, a drone is liable to do any number of things. Fly erratically. Speed up. Slow down. Hang suspended in the air. Reverse course. Take a new course. And, most dangerously: Crash. What the compromised drone cannot do, however, is regain control. Lost to its original assignment\u2014whether it\u2019s delivering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1488,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-drones","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}