Virus hits Predator Drone network

[DMac]

File this one under the 'you've got to be f**king kidding me!"

Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet/)

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A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.

The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.

[gunDriller]

File this one under the 'you've got to be f**king kidding me!"


i would file it under, "it's about damn time, if it's true."

[Santa]

Hah! A modern weapon of resistance.

[Cebu_4_2]

They use completely different computer communications, IE; frequency and cable. If any such thing did happen it would have come from their inside. Either FF or disinfo me thinks.

[Serpo]

Drone the virus ,drone the virus

[palani]

in the near future an artificial intelligence network called Skynet will become self-aware and initiate a nuclear holocaust of mankind

[Santa]

I hope it goes viral.

They use all the technology that money can buy,... against people.

I hope someone creates a virus that rams those drones right up their collective ass.

[Santa]

in the near future an artificial intelligence network called Skynet will become self-aware and initiate a nuclear holocaust of mankind

Maybe... or it'll be a cyber gentech viral mutation that infects the human brain, though I'd grant odds are still in favor of a Big Boom.

[osoab]

Wonder if it is being added from the inside.



Will this put a damper on these drones?

Military's first cargo-carrying drone aircraft is going to war (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/10/lockheed-kaman-drone-helicopter.html)



The Marine Corps will deploy its first-ever cargo-lifting drone into a war zone when it sends the K-MAX helicopter to Afghanistan next month.

The heavy-lift drone chopper, made by Lockheed Martin Corp. and Kaman Aerospace Corp., recently wrapped up a five-day evaluation study in Arizona to prove its cargo-carrying capability in conditions similar to those it would be expected to encounter in Afghanistan.

K-MAX exceeded the Navy and Marines’ requirement to deliver 6,000 pounds of cargo per day.

“K-MAX has the capability to quickly deliver cargo, thus getting troops off the roads and allowing them to focus on other missions," said Navy Rear Adm. Bill Shannon, division executive officer for unmanned aviation and strike weapons.
The K-MAX team of mission commanders and aircraft operators have been undergoing training and flight tests at a base in Twentynine Palms, according to a Lockheed release (http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2011/100511_LM_KAMAN_K-MAX.html).

Lockheed and Kaman teamed in 2007 to transform Kaman’s manned power-lift helicopter into a drone capable of autonomous or remote-controlled cargo delivery. Kaman designed the airframe and Lockheed designed the helicopter’s mission management and control systems.

K-MAX is the latest robotic aircraft to join the military's expanding drone fleet, which include high-flying spy jets, small hand-launched planes and missile-firing hunter aircraft.

“We are extremely honored to have been selected for deployment by the Navy,” said Sal Bordonaro, division president at Kaman Helicopters. “We are committed to providing the Marine Corps with the life-saving unmanned capability of our proven airframe, reducing the risk to our forces by taking the cargo resupply mission from the ground to the air.”

[Serpo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vcmF-HgV5d0#!

[gunDriller]

File this one under the 'you've got to be f**king kidding me!"

Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet/)

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the way that defense contractors work, there's a good chance that they inserted the virus themselves, so that they could then apply for an R&D contract to fix it.

that's how the Zio-war-toy-boyz work.

[Buddha]

the way that defense contractors work, there's a good chance that they inserted the virus themselves, so that they could then apply for an R&D contract to fix it.

that's how the Zio-war-toy-boyz work.

Yeah, I don't think someone "outside" did this.

[Dogman]

Where are the parts made for the drones?

We sell off our technology to foreign companies and then are forced to buy components made elsewhere and then act surprised when shit like this happens.

I remember when even the playstation was forbidden to be sold to those considered to be unfriendly because the processors were far enough advanced that they could have been used against us.What we sell and or, give away is also stolen then reverse engineered.