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An oil tanker collided with the USS John S. McCain near Singapore this week, injuring five sailors, starting a search for ten more missing sailors, and sparking concerns about potential GPS foul-play.  “There’s something more than just human error going on,” says Jeff Stutzman, a chief intelligence officer. “Statistically, it looks very suspicious,” Dr. Humphreys […]

Black Sea shipping is the latest target of GPS spoofing, according to captains of these ships in late June of this year. The GPS receivers aboard the ships began to act erratically, reporting that the ships were on land or too far out at sea. Dr. Humphreys says the evidence indicates that this wasn’t a case

In June of this year, reports surfaced of ships in the Black Sea experiencing problems with their satellite navigation. Their GPS receivers told them they were somewhere they weren’t – something known as GPS spoofing. Dr. Humphreys has long warned of the dangers of GPS spoofing. In 2013, he and his team performed a test

After a recent spoofing incident perpetrated by the Kremlin, the dangers of sensor spoofing for autonomous cars feels more real than ever. Dr. Humphreys spoke with Inverse about the vulnerabilities of autonomous cars and the threat of GPS spoofing. “Everybody’s primary fear is they’re traveling down the road in an autonomous car here and somehow hacks them remotely and

Two of Dr. Humphreys’ students, Lakshay Narula and Matthew Murrian, were one of only eight teams chosen for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for 2017. Their project focuses on localizing pedestrians and cyclists to within half a meter, enabling self-driving vehicles to safely navigate with confidence. Their approach uses precise GNSS developed by Dr. Humphreys’ lab

Today, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are no match for manned fighter pilots. US human pilots have shot down two of them this month alone. However, this could change. Speaking to Motherboard, the tech arm of Vice News, Dr. Todd Humphreys predicted that “UAVs will eventually achieve superiority” due to their ability to “pull G’s far

The rise of autonomous drones for commercial use promises new and exciting possibilities, but the threat of these drones being compromised by an attacker still looms. As more and more companies begin sending more and more drones into the skies, the question of security must be seriously examined.  According to Dr. Humphreys, commercial drones remain “very

Earlier this year, reports started to surface on Russian media of a strange phenomenon. In certain areas of central Moscow, mostly within sight of the Kremlin walls, satellite signals were scrambled. Instead of showing true locations, people’s phones were showing them almost 20 miles away at Vnukovo airport. Dr. Humphreys spoke with CNN about the

GPS World recently featured a paper authored by Dr. Humphreys and students from the Radionavigation Lab. The paper discusses the details of low-cost precise positioning, particularly in regards to autonomous driving. In order to achieve this level of precision, a dense reference network is required. The paper outlines the implementation of RNL’s own network, the

IEEE Spectrum recently featured an article discussing centimeter-accurate GPS positioning for automated driving. Dr. Todd Humphreys discussed why centimeter-accurate GPS positioning is necessary, as well as some of the challenges that have yet to be solved. “When there’s a standard deviation of 10 cm, the probability of slipping into next lane is low enough—meaning 1 part in a