Iraqi Insurgents Hacking U.S. Drones

U.S. Predator drones are being hacked by Iraqi insurgents, according to a Wall Street Journal report today.

Apparently all it takes is $26 software you can get at Best Buy. And this is why the Department of Defense has a $110 billion procurement budget?

From the Wall Street Journal:

Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.

Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter.

Read the full report here.