Knocking my neighbor's kid's cruddy drone offline

Presented at DEF CON 23 (2015), Aug. 9, 2015, noon (60 minutes).

My neighbor's kid is constantly flying his quad copter outside my windows. I see the copter has a camera and I know the little sexed crazed monster has been snooping around the neighborhood. With all of the hype around geo-fencing and drones, this got me to wondering: Would it be possible to force a commercial quad copter to land by sending a low-level pulse directly to it along the frequencies used by GPS? Of course, radio signal jamming is illegal in the U.S and, frankly, it would disrupt my electronics, too. In this presentation, we'll look at some of the research and issues we encountered, when we attempted to force land two commercial drones (the new DJI Phantom 3 and the Parrot Bepop Drone) by sending GPS signals directly at the drones (while staying under the threshold for jamming and not disrupting anyone else).

Presenters:

• Michael Robinson - Professor, Stevenson University
  Michael Robinson has over 15 years of computer security experience and is currently a computer and mobile device forensic examiner in the Washington, DC area, where he deals with intrusion analysis, incident response, and criminal cases. For over four years he ran IT and IA operations for a Department of Defense agency. He has conducted research on security of mobile devices and is starting to play around in the drone space. He teaches computer forensics at the graduate level at Stevenson University in Maryland.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-23/dc-23-speakers.html#Robinson
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 23/DEF CON 23 slides/DEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline - Slides.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 23/DEF CON 23 video/DEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline - Video.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 23/DEF CON 23 video and slides/DEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline - Video and Slides.mp4 (Video and Slides)
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 23/DEF CON 23 slides/DEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline - Slides.srt (subtitles)
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 23/DEF CON 23 video and slides/DEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline - Video and Slides.srt (subtitles)
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 23/DEF CON 23 video/DEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline - Video.srt (subtitles)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CzURm7OpAA

Similar Presentations:

• DEF CON 24 (2016) / Drones Hijacking - multi-dimensional attack vectors and countermeasures
• THOTCON 0x6 (2015) / Wireless Drone Strikes Episode II: Attack of the Drones!
• REcon 2023 / Unchained Skies: A Deep Dive into Reverse Engineering and Exploitation of Drones