Drone News #55: DJI Data leak report. Drone/helicopter collision. 20k students

This week in drone news: An update to the DJI data leak that’s
been going on for years. A Canadian police drone collides with a
Police Helicopter. Pix4D releases a new photogrammetry cloud
service: Pix4Dcloud and Pix4Dcloud Advanced. And finally a Pilot
Institute update: we reach 20,000 students and 36,000
enrollments, all thanks to you! 


Summary


00:42 - DJI Data Leaks: real or not?
04:03 - Police drone collides with a police helicopter
06:15 - New Pix4Dcloud offering
07:43 - 20,000 students at Pilot Institute





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Script/Links


DJI Data Leaks: real or not? 


A report from Booz Allen, an IT consulting company, was released
this week regarding the long-debated possible data security
issues from DJI drones. 


The report was prepared for PrecisionHawk, a commercial drone and
data company. 


Booz Allen tested risk assessments of possible vulnerabilities
for 3 drones: the Government Edition Mavic Pro, Matrice 600, and
the Mavic 2 Enterprise. 


The testing did not identify data connections made by the drone
platforms to DJI or Chinese servers.


They did identify potential vulnerabilities that could be
exploited or triggered by a threat source. 


The attacker would need to have physical access to the drone
itself, or be within direct radio range during specific
operations. 


The vulnerabilities were provided to DJI who said they mitigated
several of them and will address the rest shortly. 


The report also said that “vulnerabilities will exist to some
degree regardless of the UAS platform”. 


https://www.precisionhawk.com/blog/unmanned-aerial-intelligence-technology-center-of-excellence-conducts-risk-assessment-of-drone-technology





When a police drone collides with a police
helicopter


A Royal Canadian Mounted Police AS350 helicopter collided with a
SkyRanger R60 drone earlier in February but was only reported in
June. 


The two aircraft were on a joint mission in British Columbia when
the accident happen. 


It was classified as a midair collision, which happened at 300
feet AGL.


No one was hurt and the helicopter did a precautionary landing on
a road nearby. 


Damage was found on the helicopter to the main rotor blades and
the tail boom and rotor. 


The drone itself was destroyed and with has a listing price of
$100,000, it’s an expensive lesson. 


https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/police-helicopter-collides-with-police-drone/