SkyGrabber

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SkyGrabber is commercial software from the Russian company SkySoftware for the indirect storage of satellite data streams.

Supported hardware

  • DVBWorld
  • TBS / QBOX
  • Azure goods
  • TechniSat
  • TechnoTrend
  • Genitech
  • TeVii

SkyGrabber services

  • Information filter for mp3, avi, mpg
  • Information filter on IP and MAC addresses
  • Support of TCP, GPE, IP, MPE data packets
  • Support from Kazaa and Gnutella
  • Access to HTTP (200, 206)
  • Support of Dreamboxes

At the end of 2009 it became known that the software could be used to record the communication of American reconnaissance and espionage drones with their ground stations .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. heise online: US reconnaissance drones: The enemy is watching (December 17, 2009)
  2. The Wall Street Journal: Insurgents Hack US Drones (December 17, 2009 )