Hackers Demonstrate They Can Remotely Shift Targets, Lock TrackingPoint Rifles

By Nick Leghorn

When your life is on the line, the very last thing you want to worry about is the reliability of your equipment. Give me a good old fashioned carbureted engine with a set of magnetos and I’m a happy lad — you can keep your fancy fuel injection to yourself. Beyond the possibility of a glitch in the code causing a problem or your electrical system going dead another worry is that your fancy computerized gizmo can be altered without your knowledge to malfunction in subtle but deadly ways. A team of hackers at DefCon (one of the last few things on my bucket list to attend) demonstrated that they can do just that with TrackingPoint’s multi-thousand dollar precision rifles, making them either hit the wrong target or lock the user out completely. All without ever touching the gun.

From WIRED:

At the Black Hat hacker conference in two weeks, security researchers Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger plan to present the results of a year of work hacking a pair of $13,000 TrackingPoint self-aiming rifles. The married hacker couple have developed a set of techniques that could allow an attacker to compromise the rifle via its Wi-Fi connection and …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns