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Stealing a Drone with Software Defined Radio
PHDays (Positive Hack Days) is a yearly forum with a focus on ethical hacking and security. During this years forum which took place in June, the organizers set up a competition where the goal was to...
View ArticleSniffing ANT-FS with an RTL-SDR and MMDS Downconverter in Pothos
ANT-FS is a wireless file transfer protocol that is designed specifically for transferring files wireless between two devices. It is designed for ultra low power devices and typically runs on devices...
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Cheating at Pokémon Go with a HackRF and GPS Spoofing
“Pokémon Go” is the latest in smartphone augmented reality gaming crazes. You may have already heard about the game on the news, or seen kids playing it in your neighborhood. To play, players must walk...
View ArticleGSM Sniffing: A Full YouTube Tutorial
Over on YouTube user Crazy Danish Hacker has been working on uploading an entire series on GSM Sniffing with an RTL-SDR. His series is explained in a slow and clear presenting style, and it starts at...
View ArticleMotherboard: How Hackers Could Wirelessly Bug Your Office
Online magazine Motherboard have recently uploaded a video on YouTube where a reporter interviews white hat hacker Ang Cui. Cui is the inventor of the Funtenna which is software malware that can infect...
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Unlocking Almost Any Vehicle with an SDR or Arduino
Earlier this week wired.com released a story indicating that researchers from the University of Birmingham have discovered two vulnerabilities that can be used to unlock almost any car. The first...
View ArticleUSBee: Leaking Data from Air-Gapped Computers and Receiving it with an RTL-SDR
This Monday researchers from Ben-Gurion University of Negev released an academic paper detailing their research in showing how attackers could cause your PC to wirelessly leak data. They write that...
View ArticleTalk: Decoding Data from Iridium Satellites
At this year’s hacker themed Eleventh Hope conference, Stefan “Sec” Zehl and Schneider gave a talk which discusses their latest work on decoding data from Iridium satellites using SDR’s. Iridium is a...
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Performing a Replay Attack on a Wireless Doorbell with a USRP SDR
A replay attack consists of recording a signal, and then simply replaying it back at the same frequency at a later time. To do this a receive and transmit capable software defined radio like a...
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Building your own Rogue GSM Basestation with a BladeRF
Over on his blog author Simone Margaritelli has added a tutorial that shows how to set up a bladeRF to act as a GSM basestation (cell tower). Having your own GSM basestation allows you to create your...
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Identifying Transmitters with CTCSS Fingerprinting
Oona Räisänen is a RF hacker and enthusiast who has in the past brought us posts about decoding burger pagers in restaurants, decoding wireless bus signs and FM-RDS with SDR’s like the RTL-SDR. This...
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Reverse Engineering Traffic Lights with an RTL-SDR Part 2
Back in September 2015 we made a post about how Bastian Bloessl was able to use his RTL-SDR dongle to reverse engineer and decode the signals coming from portable wirelessly synchronized traffic lights...
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CNxROOT Two Posts: How to Build an RTL-SDR Server with OpenWRT, Creating a...
Recently security researcher cnxroot wrote in to let us know about two of his posts that may be of interest to readers. The posts are written in Chinese, so please use Google Translate to read them in...
View ArticleCamp++ YouTube Talk: GSM Signal Sniffing for Everyone with GR-GSM and Multi-RTL
Over on YouTube the channel Budapest Hackerspace has recently uploaded a talk by Piotr Krysik which was given during the August 2016 Camp++ 0x7e0 information security conference. The talk is titled:...
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Reverse Engineering Honeywell 345 MHz Home Automation Sensors with an RTL-SDR
OpenHAB is an open source home automation software program which is designed to interface and manage all the various sensors and systems in an automated house. One problem however, is that many...
View ArticleReverse Engineering Signals with the Universal Radio Hacker Software
Thanks to RTL-SDR.com reader M Kizan who notified us about a Python based digital signal reverse engineering software program called ‘Universal Radio Hacker’ which is developed by Johannes Pohl. The...
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Reverse Engineering Linear DX Wireless Door Locks
Employees at the network data security company Duo recently had their interest piqued when they discovered that their office’s keycard based door system had a wireless remote which was used by...
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re-DECTed: An RTL-SDR DECT Decoder
Over on GitHub programmer ‘znuh’ has uploaded a new RTL-SDR compatible GNURadio based tool for DECT decoding. DECT is an acronym for ‘Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications’, and is the wireless...
View ArticleYouTube Talk: Hunting Rogue WiFi Devices using the HackRF SDR
Over on YouTube a video titled “Hunting Rogue WiFi Devices using the HackRF SDR” has been uploaded. The talk is given by Mike Davis at the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Cape Town. The...
View ArticleExplaining the Dallas Siren Hack
If you’ve been paying attention to the news then you might have heard of the recent Dallas tornado siren hack. Earlier in the month a hacker took control of 156 tornado warning sirens placed all around...
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