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821Damn Vulnerable Drone
Intentionally vulnerable drone hacking simulator on the ArduPilot/MAVLink stack. A full lab for hands-on drone security.
352CrackQL
GraphQL password brute-force and fuzzing utility for testing API authentication at scale.

SiKW00F
Drone SiK radio detection and MAVLink telemetry eavesdropping toolkit.

Infected Drones
A collection of vulnerabilities and exploits against modern ground control stations.
What we do
Full-stack offense
Drone and robotics testing, adversarial assessments, security consulting, incident response, and the ASEC platform.
Experience
More than a decade in business.
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Who breaks it
Nick Aleks
Founder & CEO
Nick Aleks is a security engineer, researcher, and the founder and CEO of ASEC. He's led security at some of the biggest names in fintech, including Wealthsimple and Robinhood, and now heads security at Dominion Dynamics. Over ten years he's broken into websites, APIs, safes, locks, cars, drones, and smart buildings, and he trains the next wave of hackers on advisory boards at George Brown and the University of Guelph.
He also wrote the books the industry trains on.
Founder of DC416. Canada's largest hacker community, a Toronto DEF CON group of 2,880 members, ten years running.

