As technology companies and their consumer products clientele increasingly move society in a direction of a networked “internet of everything world,” that digitally connected world is becoming easier to hack as cyber criminals and intrusion technology out-paces the security software industry. Against this backdrop comes news that Boeing and an Italian firm have developed a methodology of using drowns to remotely plant spyware into computers and smart-phones via WiFi and email conversations. That drone in the sky could be planting a computer virus through your wireless network Boeing, operating through its Insitu subsidiary, is working with the Hacking Team, an…
Boeing, Italian Firm, Create Drone To Hack Into WiFi
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.