InformationWeek: Hacking group AnonSec claims to have breached NASA's network and to have temporarily gained partial control of a NASA Global Hawk drone. The group says that two years ago it bought access to a NASA server from an individual identified as "Ghosts" (鬼佬) and, after months of network reconnaissance, managed to upload a .GPX file containing a pre-planned flight path -- for autopilot and connection failover -- to a NASA drone. The group speculates that its attempt to crash the drone failed because of pilot intervention.
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