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Researchers Find Crippling Flaws In Global GPS

Posted by samzenpus on from the where-in-the-world dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Researchers have developed attacks capable of crippling Global Positioning System infrastructure critical to the navigation of a host of military and civilian technologies including planes, ships and unamed drones. The novel remote attacks can be made against consumer and professional-grade receivers using $2500 worth of custom-built equipment. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Coherent Navigation detailed the attacks in a paper. (pdf)"

2 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Misleading Summary by ne0n · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it was news you'd see it on Carver Media first. We saw this attack used in 1997 to start open hostilities between China and Britain. Luckily we had a man in the area and he managed to stop it before anybody went nuclear.

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  2. Re:Well, duh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A new software attack to disable GPS functionality? - Apple maps was released months ago.