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Using an RTL-SDR to help open a Gated Community
Tomasz lives in a gated community, but as he doesn’t own a car he wasn’t given access to a gate remote control. This made it difficult for him to have friends who have cars visit him. So he decided to...
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Blindly Reverse Engineering a Wireless Protocol
Hackaday has brought to attention a document written by a Rory O’Hare which discusses the journey Rory took in trying a decode an unknown 433 MHz signal received from his SDR dongle. If you are...
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Triangulation of a VHF Signal with RTLSDR-Scanner
A few months back we posted about how the the RTLSDR-Scanner software had been updated to include signal triangulation capabilities. Now blogger Tobby has written a post about his attempt at...
View ArticleBrute Force Unlocking a Car with a USRP Software Defined Radio
Wired.com has posted an article showing how security researcher Cesare was able to use his USRP software defined radio to unlock a car with wireless entry. Essentially his hack involves brute forcing...
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Black Hat Software Defined Radio Talks
Black Hat, a large conference about information security related topics has recently finished and videos of some of the talks given have now been uploaded to YouTube. This year we have found three...
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Videos from DEFCON 22 Wireless Village Talks
Another security and hacking conference that recently finished is Defcon 2014. During this conference there was a “Wireless Village” were there were talks discussing all things related to radio...
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Reverse Engineering Wireless Wall Outlets And Automatically Cloning OOK Signals
Wireless wall outlets are electrical outlets that can be turned on or off by a wireless remote. Fabien is an experimenter who was looking for a way to control the power of his home devices from a...
View ArticleUsing an RTL-SDR as a Cheap Entropy Source
One of the many uses of the RTL-SDR is as a random number generator for generating entropy. Entropy is needed in computing for many application such as in encryption and security. Noel Bourke has...
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Hacking a PlayStation 3 using an RTL-SDR
There is a war going on between game console designers and the console modding community. Modders hack the console system so that they can jailbreak it and then install their own custom firmware while...
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Analyzing a Car Security Active RFID Token with a HackRF
Some car security systems from around 2001 – 2003 use an embedded RFID tag inside the car key as an added security measure against key copying. Using his HackRF, ChiefTinker was able to analyse and...
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SDR on TV: Using SDR to Break into Homes with Wireless Alarms
Earlier this year the American TV show Good Morning America featured a segment on software defined radios being used to break into houses with wireless alarm sensors. The story is based on a Defcon...
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Digital Ding Dong Ditch – Hacking wireless doorbells with Arduino and RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user Samy Kamkar has uploaded a video showing how he was able to use an RTL-SDR to copy his friends wireless doorbell signal and prank him by replaying it using an Arduino and 433 MHz...
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Chaos Communications Congress Talks – Iridium Pager Hacking
A few days ago the Chaos Communications Congress (a technology and hacking focused conference) commenced. Amongst the talks there was one about reverse engineering the Iridium satellite paging system...
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RTL-SDR Cell Phone IMSI, TMSI and Key Sniffer
Over on YouTube user Kali Gsm has uploaded a video showing off a new software program he has written that allows an RTL-SDR to be used to gather IMSI, TMSI and Key information from a cell phone...
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Spying on Keyboard Presses with a Software Defined Radio
Last year Milos Prvulovic, a computer science researcher uploaded some videos to YouTube showing how he was able to remotely and covertly record the keystrokes of a target laptop in another room...
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SDR Capture The Flag Competition Tutorial
During several hacker and security themed conferences (Shmoocon, Bsides, Derbycon, Defcon, etc) organizers from Wireless Village have been setting up competitive WiFi and SDR themed capture the flag...
View ArticleReceiving SSTV from FleetSatcom Pirates
Radio pirates often make use of the Fleetsatcom satellites to send and receive slow scan television (SSTV) pictures over a wide distance. Fleetsatcom is a satellite communications system used by the US...
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Wireless Door Bell 433 MHz ASK Signal Analysis with a HackRF
Paul Rascagneres, an RF experimenter has recently uploaded a document detailing his efforts at reverse engineering a wireless doorbell (pdf file) with a 433 MHz Amplitude Shift Keyed (ASK) signal with...
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Stealing Encryption Keys from PCs using Software Defined Radio and...
Tel Alviv University researchers D. Genkin, L. Pachmanox, I. Pipman and E. Tromer have released a paper this year detailing their research on extracting encryption keys from PCs via their unintentional...
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RTL-SDR as a Hardware Random Number Generator with rtl_entropy
Over on his blog, Aaron Toponce has posted a tutorial that shows how to use the RTL-SDR app rtl_entropy. This app uses the RTL-SDR to create random numbers from the atmospheric noise that it receives...
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