Hackers Have Developed A Drone That Can Steal The Contents Of Your Smartphone

[Petrovic]

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http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/20/technology/security/drone-phone/index.html

The next threat to your privacy could be hovering over head while you walk down the street.
Hackers have developed a drone that can steal the contents of your smartphone -- from your location data to your Amazon password -- and they've been testing it out in the skies of London. The research will be presented next week at the Black Hat Asia cybersecurity conference in Singapore.

The technology equipped on the drone, known as Snoopy, looks for mobile devices with Wi-Fi settings turned on.

Snoopy takes advantage of a feature built into all smartphones and tablets: When mobile devices try to connect to the Internet, they look for networks they've accessed in the past.

"Their phone will very noisily be shouting out the name of every network its ever connected to," Sensepost security researcher Glenn Wilkinson said. "They'll be shouting out, 'Starbucks, are you there?...McDonald's Free Wi-Fi, are you there?"

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[Oxygen]

This is very interesting on how this works.

 

[sunil22]

Good on you mate so the time come to see who is now smart then other a hacker or user or the smart phone

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

Oh my... I'll never see the cute comic strip collection "Snoopy Come Home" or the beloved "Snoopy On Ice" extravaganza quite the same way again!