{"id":9265,"date":"2013-12-06T22:24:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T06:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9265"},"modified":"2014-09-03T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T23:02:20","slug":"now-theres-a-zombie-drone-that-hunts-controls-and-kills-other-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/now-theres-a-zombie-drone-that-hunts-controls-and-kills-other-drones","title":{"rendered":"Now There\u2019s a Zombie Drone That Hunts, Controls, and Kills Other Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/authors\/dana-liebelson\" rel=\"author\">Dana Liebelson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9265?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When 27-year-old Samy Kamkar\u2014a security researcher who famously made <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/PCWorld\/story?id=3891906\" target=\"_blank\">one million Myspace friends<\/a> in a single day\u2014heard the announcement on Sunday that Amazon was planning to start delivering packages via drone in 2015, he had an idea. He knew that whenever new technology, like drones, becomes popular quickly, there are bound to be security flaws. And he claims that he found one within 24 hours and <a href=\"http:\/\/samy.pl\/skyjack\/\" target=\"_blank\">promptly exploited it<\/a>: America, meet the zombie drone that Kamkar says hunts, hacks, and takes over nearby drones. With enough hacks, a user can allegedly control an entire zombie drone army capable of flying in any direction, taking video of your house, or committing mass drone-suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been playing with drones for a few years,\u201d Kamkar, who is based in Los Angeles, tells <em>Mother Jones<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m sure that with most of the drones out there, if you scrutinize the security, you\u2019ll find some kind of vulnerability.\u201d Kamkar says that the Amazon announcement was an opportunity to point out that drone security has room for improvement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2013\/12\/zombie-drone-samy-kamkar-amazon-security\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014By Dana Liebelson When 27-year-old Samy Kamkar\u2014a security researcher who famously made one million Myspace friends in a single day\u2014heard the announcement on Sunday that Amazon was planning to start delivering packages via drone in 2015, he had an idea. He knew that whenever new technology, like drones, becomes popular quickly, there are bound to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1488,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-drones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}