Warning over home drones as researchers reveal how easy it is to hack the devices

Sales of drones are soaring - and so are the concerns about how easily these devices can be hacked. Researchers have discovered that manufacturers are unknowingly leaving digital doors unlocked that give hackers an opportunity to wreak havoc on the system. The team found three different vulnerabilities in the devices that allowed them to send rogue commands from a laptop to disrupts its normal operation, land it or send it crashing to the ground. Researchers have discovered that manufacturers are unknowingly leaving digital doors unlocked that give hackers an opportunity to wreak havoc on the system. The students performed wireless network penetration testing on a popular hobby drone and developed'exploits' from the vulnerabilities found to disrupt the process of operators to control flights.