Hackers Make Smart Rifle Go Rogue

By Richard Adhikari

Jul 31, 2015 5:00 AM PT

Security researchers Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger have hacked a TrackingPoint smart rifle that was designed to deliver sharpshooter results, even for novices.

They demonstrated their feat for Wired and will present their findings at the week-long Black Hat 2015 security conference in Las Vegas, which begins Saturday.

The two purchased a pair of US$13,000 rifles and spent a year working on them.

They developed a set of techniques that could let hackers compromise the rifles -- which are computerized and run a version of Linux -- through the weapons' WiFi connection.

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