Domestic drones can be hacked, and foreign drones can be secure
An interesting article was posted on The Hill yesterday that points out that domestic drones (Blue sUAS) can be hacked, and foreign drones, such as the ones from DJI, can be secure.
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Drone security concerns and how to solve them
Former Congressman Jeff Denham and Bill Shuster, also a former Congressman who served as chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee from 2013 to 2019 that dealt with drones, published a very interesting op-ed on Morning Consult explaining how…
Japan to stop buying Chinese made drones over data security concerns
The Japanese government is set to stop buying Chinese-made drones because of data security concerns, according to six people in government and the ruling party who are familiar with the matter.
Drone Amplified: Washington needs to reconsider drone-banning proposals
Washington needs to reconsider drone-banning proposals, argues Carrick Detweiler, CEO of Drone Amplified. He explains in an open letter why drones play such a crucial rule in monitoring, preventing, and fighting wildfires. Detweiler also argues for the U.S. Government to create…
Australian government is ‘comfortable’ with data security of DJI drones
Over the last couple of years, various U.S. Government officials and lawmakers have expressed concerns about DJI and the data security of DJI drones and possibly stored on DJI servers in China. DJI has always maintained that the drone operator…
Cybersecurity firm FTI Consulting analyzes DJI’s data sharing or lack thereof
DroneXL already covered the main part of this News yesterday, but I think it is important to highlight the findings from FTI. The cybersecurity firm FTI Consulting analyzed DJI’s data sharing, or more accurately the lack thereof, and concluded that…
Trump ban on Chinese-made drone parts increases risk wildfires
According to an internal memo, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s decision not to buy more drones with Chinese parts has made it more difficult to fight wildfires. The memo exposes one consequence of the Trump administration’s crackdown on Chinese…
U.S. nears law banning Chinese-made drones including DJI for government use
Today turns out to be quite the drone News day, and I don’t mean that in a good way, unfortunately. Earlier today a long-established aviation news publication reported that the United States is nearing legislation that would ban all Chinese-made…
DJI’s response to Synacktiv’s ‘inaccuracies and misleading statements’ about DJI Pilot app
Yesterday, we saw the report from French security research firmSynacktiv claiming that the DJI Pilot app for Google’s Android platform would have similar security flaws as the DJI Go 4 App. We had reached out to DJI for a response…
DJI Pilot app shares same security flaws as DJI Go 4, says Synacktiv
About ten days ago, this story was published in the NY Times highlighting the security flaws found in the DJI Go 4 App for the Android platform by security researchers from the French company Synacktiv. Today, the company releases a…
CEO Henri Seydoux declares end of Parrot’s consumer drones and offers to show audited software
Parrot’s co-founder and CEO, Henri Seydouxdeclares the end of Parrot’s consumer drones in an interview that was published earlier this month in Le Parisien. In the same article, Seydoux also offers to show that Parrot’s audited software applications do stand…
DJI’s response to the security weakness reported in the NY Times
DJI released the following statement (see below) in response to the security weakness found in DJI drones mentioned in this article from the NY Times. We reached out to DJI to get some clarification on a specific part of their…