Drones…Death from above

Drones are everywhere now. They deliver packages, resupply submarines, and can even deploy medical equipment in an emergency. They are used to map out pipelines, find holes in roofs, and they travel the railways measuring intricate variations in the configurations of steel rails for safety purposes. The applications for these flying computers are limitless.

While the potential use cases of drones are many, so too are the potential threats they represent. Drones are not much more than flying minicomputers. They are composed of systems that enable flight, autonomously or manually, and have intricate control software and capabilities. Military-grade drones are a different story as they have their own internal power plants and are often built to be more resistant to common attack vectors. However, even those drones designed and built with military applications in mind have been compromised in several notable instances.

In December...