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Hacking a Professional Drone

Professional drones are now actively used across various industries to perform daily critical operations. In this awareness session, Nils Rodday will perform a live hack which exploits vulnerabilities of the professional drone and effectively compromises the security of the system to take over control. His session will also discuss practical fixes and approaches for remediating these issues.

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Nils Rodday

Nils Rodday is currently employed as an IT Security Consultant. He holds MSc degrees in computer science from the University of Twente (Netherlands) and the University of Trento (Italy). The specialization track he chose within the EIT Digital double-degree master program was Security & Privacy, leading to a final degree project with the title “Exploring Security Vulnerabilities of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.” 

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