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Samy Kamkar Talks Hardware Security on Hackster Café
Samy Kamkar is famous in the wireless and hardware information security scene for his research on various security exploits including methods to defeat rolling code security, and using a children's toy...
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Mapping GPS/GNSS Interference Through ADS-B Data
Websites like adsbexchange.com log ADS-B aircraft tracking data from contributors located all over the world and aggregate it all onto a single map. Typically an RTL-SDR is the receiver of choice for...
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New York Times Story on Intercepted Russian Forces Radio Communications
The New York Times have recently run an incredible video story about how Russian radio communications are being intercepted and recorded by ham radio operators and open source radio monitoring...
View ArticleReceiving Analog TV from Turkmenistan Unintentionally Bouncing off a Russian...
Over on Twitter @dereksgc has been monitoring the 'Meridian' communications satellites, which are Russian owned and used for civilian and military purposes. The satellites are simple unsecure...
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Tesla Charging Ports Opened with HackRF Replay Attack
The charging port on Tesla electric vehicles is protected via a cover that can be opened by charging stations via a wireless signal transmitted at 315 MHz. It turns out that the command to open the...
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Running GR-GSM and IMSI Catcher on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Dragon OS
DragonOS is a ready to use Ubuntu Linux image that comes preinstalled with multiple SDR software packages. The creator Aaron also runs a YouTube channel showing how to use the various packages...
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Financial Times Story about Ukraine Radio Monitoring with WebSDRs
The Financial Times has recently run a video story on how hobbyist WebSDR setups are being use to record Russian radio communications during the war on Ukraine. In these modern times, we would expect...
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Opening and Starting Honda Civic Vehicles with a HackRF Replay Attack
A few months ago University student Ayyappan Rajesh and HackingIntoYourHeart reported cybersecurity vulnerability CVE-2022-27254. This vulnerability demonstrates how unsecure the remote keyless locking...
View ArticleRolling-Pwn: Wireless rolling code security completely defeated on all Honda...
Back in May we posted about CVE-2022-27254 where university student researchers discovered that the wireless locking system on several Honda vehicles was vulnerable to simple RF replay attacks. A...
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Listening in on Hollywood Reality TV Show Wireless Microphones with an RTL-SDR
Over on Reddit user u/mknlsn has posted an interesting use for his RTL-SDR. He happens to live next door to a Hollywoood reality TV show production and was able to use his RTL-SDR to listen in on the...
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The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada
Since the famous takedown of a suspected Chinese spy balloon, US jets have shot down a total of three more unidentified balloon objects, now confirmed to have been 'commercial or benign'. There is...
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Receiving Russian Satellite TV from the Express AM8 Satellite and watching...
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU has banned the broadcast of Russian TV channels. This is caused Russia to move their satellite broadcasts from internationally owned satellites, to their...
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Hunting for Space Radio Pirates on the US Military Fleet Satcom Satellites
In the 70's and 80's the US government launched a fleet of satellites called "FLTSATCOM", which were simple radio repeaters up in geostationary orbit. This allowed the US military to easily communicate...
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Flipper Zero Self Destructs an Electricity Smart Meter
Flipper Zero is an affordable handheld RF device for pentesters and hackers. It is not based on SDR technology, however it uses a CC1101 chip, a digitally controlled RX/TX radio that is capable of...
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Video showing Flipper Zero Smoking a Smart Meter may be Fake
A few days ago we posted a YouTube video by Peter Fairlie which shows him using a Flipper Zero to turn a smart meter on and off, eventually causing the smart meter to destroy itself by releasing the...
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Encryption on the TETRA Protocol has been broken
TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) is a digital voice and text radio communications protocol often used by authorities and industry in European and many countries other than the USA. A major advantage...
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DJI DroneID Detection Running on the AntSDR E200 CPU
DJI is a major manufacturer of consumer drones and their drones implement an RF protocol called DroneID which is designed to transmit the position of the drone and operator to authorized entities such...
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Tech Minds: Video on DJI Drone Detection on the AntSDR E200
Just recently we posted about the release of some firmware for the AntSDR E200 which allows it to decode DJI DroneID. DroneID is a protocol designed to transmit the position of the drone and operator...
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Canada Moves to Ban Flipper Zero and Possibly Software Defined Radios
Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's Minister of Public safety has recently declared that they plan to ban devices "used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the...
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SigintOS Version 2.0 Community Edition Released
SigintOS is an Ubuntu based distribution with a number of built in signal intelligence applications for software defined radios such as the RTL-SDR and TX capable SDRs like the HackRF, bladeRF and USRP...
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