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Decoding Public Utility Meters with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube a talk about decoding water and electricity usage meters with an RTL-SDR has been uploaded from the 2015 Camp++ conference in Hungary. The presenter, Stef writes: Budapest public...
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Breaking into cars wirelessly with a $32 homemade device called RollJam
At this years Def Con conference speaker Samy Kamkar revealed how he built a $32 device called “RollJam” which is able to break into cars and garages wirelessly, by defeating the rolling code...
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Seeing through walls with WiFi signals and USRP software defined radios
Researchers at the University College of London have found a way to use WiFi signals to see through walls, using a USRP software defined radio and software written in LabView. The researchers have...
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Spoofing GPS Locations with low cost TX SDRs
At this years Defcon 2015 conference researcher Lin Huang from Qihoo 360 presented her work on spoofing GPS signals. Qihoo 360 is a Chinese security company producing antivirus software. Lin works at...
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Reverse Engineering Wireless Mobile Traffic Lights with an RTL-SDR
When roadworks suddenly appeared on Bastian Bloessl’s girlfriends street the workers put up a set of automated wireless traffic lights to control the flow of traffic during the works. Seeing these...
View ArticleVideo showing SMS Texts and Voice Calls being sniffed with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user Osama SH has uploaded a video briefly showing the steps needed to use an RTL-SDR dongle to sniff some SMS text messages and voice calls made from his own phone. This can be done if...
View ArticleReverse engineering a public parking electronic display to play Tetris
Recently we received an email from RTL-SDR.com reader @Ivoidwarranties about his latest project which involved using a HackRF to reverse engineer the RF protocol used by a public parking electronic...
View ArticleControlling Siri and Google Now with a Yagi and USRP
Wired magazine have recently run a story that shows how French researchers have discovered a method for remotely controlling modern smartphones through an RF attack that targets the voice control...
View ArticleHacking GSM Signals with an RTL-SDR and Topguw
The ability to hack some GSM signals has been around for some time now, but the steps to reproduce the hack have been long and difficult to set up. Recently RTL-SDR.com reader Bastien wrote into us to...
View ArticleHak5: Hacking Wireless Doorbells and Software Defined Radio tips
On this weeks episode of Hak5, a popular electronics and hacking YouTube show, the presenters talk about reverse engineering and performing replay attacks on wireless devices such as a doorbell. They...
View ArticleHak5: Reverse Engineering Radio Protocols with SDR and the Yardstick One
Over on YouTube the popular security and hacking themed channel Hak5 have created two videos together with Mike Ossmann (creator of the HackRF and Yardstick One) that give a good introduction and...
View ArticleSoftware defined radio talks from Defcon 23
Defcon is a yearly conference that focuses on computer security and hacking talks. In recent years they have included a “Wireless Village” section that includes talks about all things wireless. This...
View ArticleDEFCON 23 – LTE Recon and Tracking with RTLSDR
Back on Dec 5 we posted about some Defcon 23 talks that were released from the Wireless Village set of talks. Recently some more talks from other tracks have been released and one of interest to our...
View ArticleTalk by Micheal Ossmann at Toorcon 2015: Rapid Radio Reversing
Toorcon is a yearly conference that focusus on information security related topics. At the 2015 Toorcon conference Micheal Ossmann (inventor of the HackRF SDR) gave an interesting talk about reverse...
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Hacking the Z-Wave Protocol with a HackRF
Z-wave is a wireless protocol that is used often in applications like smart home and industrial automation. It essentially allows various wireless nodes to connect and talk to one another within your...
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Bypassing Rolling Code Systems – CodeGrabbing/RollJam
A while back we posted about Samy Kamkars popular “RollJam” device, which was a $32 home made device that was able to defeat rolling code based wireless security systems such as those used on modern...
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Reverse Engineering the SimpliSafe Wireless Burglar Alarm
SimpliSafe is a home security system that relies on wireless radio communications between its various sensors and control panels. They claim that their system is installed in over 300,000 homes in...
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Hacking Alarm Systems with an RTL-SDR and RFcat
Back in 2014 the author of boredhackerblog.blogspot.com did a final year project for his wireless security class on hacking home alarm systems. His presentation was titled “How we broke into your...
View ArticleUsing a HackRF to perform a replay attack against a Jeep Patriot
Over on his blog Caleb Madrigal has written a short article that describes how he was able to perform a simple relay attack against a Jeep Patriot vehicle which allowed him to unlock and lock his car...
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Slovenian University Student & Security Researcher Almost Jailed for...
Dejan Ornig, a 26 year old student at the University of Maribor’s Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security was recently almost jailed for finding a security flaw in Police TETRA communications in his...
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