Go Ahead, Hack My Drone
New this year, Altamira Technologies sponsored a “Girls in STEM” wing at the annual STEM Symposium. Among the highlights was an interactive exhibit to engage attendees in a mock cyber-attack. The demonstration— “Hack My Drone”—showed participants that commercial unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, aren’t as safe as many may think. In addition to its drone hacking demonstration, the McLean, Va.-based open source technology-company, included a showcase of women in technology. Among the female STEM pioneers highlighted was Katherine Johnson, an African-American physicist and mathematician whose life was portrayed in the recent film ‘Hidden Figures.’