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KXAN: Tesla CEO Elon Musk addresses Texas Transportation Forum, January 2015

“The man considered to be one of the biggest influences in the transportation world is in Austin this week. Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk addressed a crowd Thursday at the 10th Annual Texas Transportation Forum. Musk, who has overseen product development and design for all of Tesla’s electric cars, also is the creative spark […]

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Popular Science: Are there electronic defenses against drones? December 2014

“In the summer of 2012, a small robotic helicopter, painted Texas Longhorns orange and white, climbed into the air above the team’s empty football field in Austin. Then the device suddenly plummeted toward the grass, its controller overridden by a team of university- sanctioned hackers. A few days later, in the White Sands Missile Range

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A Red Team, A Blue Team, and the White Rose, September 2014

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…

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Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR): Im Visier der Hacker, July 2014

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,

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Christian Science Monitor: Civilian drones need costly fixes to avoid hacking, study indicates, July 2014

“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.

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Lab Alumnus Dr. Zak Kassas Joins University of California, Riverside, June 2014

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

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RNL @ SXSW, March 2014

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.

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