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Before March 2013, the members of the UT Austin Radionavigation Lab and the Cornell GPS Lab had never heard of the superyacht called the White Rose of Drachs… They did, however, know something relevant to superyachts and other high-value maritime and aviation assets: how to spoof their GNSS navigation systems and how to detect spoofing attacks… […]

Norddeutscher Rundfunk (North German Broadcasting), a German public television service, produced the 44-minute documentary film “Im Visier der Hacker – Wie gefährlich wird das Netz?”  The film, whose title translates to “Targeted by the hackers: how dangerous is the power?,” features interviews with Dr. Humphreys and Daniel Shepard on GPS spoofing.  The film is in German,

“Commercial drones expected to fly US skies in coming years, delivering pizza or monitoring power lines, would be dangerously vulnerable to hackers without a variety of potentially costly countermeasures to their GPS navigation systems, results of a federal study indicate.” Continue reading the Christian Science Monitor article that features an interview with Dr. Humphreys.

Radionavigation lab alum Dr. Zak Kassas will join the Electrical Engineering Department at The University of California, Riverside (UCR) in the Fall 2014 Quarter as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Kassas’ Ph.D. focused on studying a novel navigation paradigm termed collaborative opportunistic navigation (COpNav). COpNav aims to exploit the plenitude of ambient radio frequency signals of opportunity in the environment (e.g., cellular

RNL presented at the 2014 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, TX, which offers the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.   On Friday, March 7, Dr. Humphreys and Jahshan Bhatti presented “Location Deception: Yacht vs. GPS Spoofer.”  Audio recording of the presentation is available on soundcloud.

“If you were watching Iranian state TV in early December 2011, you would have seen an unusual flying object paraded in front of viewers. Windowless, squat, with a pointed nose, its two wings made it the shape of a manta ray. The trophy on show was an RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone, a key weapon in

“Not everyone is thrilled with the rise of civilian drones in American skies. Last week, after Amazon hyped its plan to deliver packages in half an hour via UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), we wondered about the drone backlash happening in many part of the U.S. And while an angry few threatened to shoot down these

“In a stunning display of engineering, students in the UT Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics hacked a superyacht’s GPS system in the Mediterranean Sea. They veered the $80 million vessel off course, proving that such a feat could be performed using cutting-edge technology. In fact, the students not only sent false GPS signals to the yacht’s

Austin, TX—Ken Pesyna won the best paper presentation award in the Multi-Constellation/Portable Navigation Devices Session of the ION GNSS+ 2013 conference for his paper entitled “Precision Limits of Low-Energy GNSS Receivers.” Ken’s research focuses on Tightly Coupled Opportunistic Navigation.

“The answer was Yes. The question: Could you hijack my yacht? Now, the rest of the story: I had just finished telling a conference audience how we brought down an drone with a specialized attack against its GPS sensor. A distinguished-looking man with a British accent handed me his card. “I don’t suppose you could