A research team at the University of Texas at Austin faced a unique challenge this summer: use false GPS signals to force a 213-foot yacht off-course. The scary part was in their success.
The team from the university's Cockrell School of Engineering developed a custom-made GPS spoofing device that "creates false civil GPS signals to gain control of a vessel’s GPS receivers." UT Austin said the idea behind this project was to determine the difficulty of carrying out such an attack at sea and the possibility of detecting the threat
As the video above demonstrates, the spoof attack succeeded Read more...
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