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Etherify 4: Using PC Ethernet RF Leakage to Transmit QRSS CW
Recently we've posted about Etherify a few times, mostly about how the unintentional RF leakage from the Raspberry Pi 4 Ethernet hardware is really strong and can be modulated to transmit data. In one...
View ArticleSteve Mould Hacks Into his Car with a HackRF
Over on YouTube popular science content creator Steve Mould has uploaded a video showing how he was able to open his own car using a HackRF software defined radio. In the video Steve first uses the...
View ArticleEtherify Talk from The rC3 Online Conference
The "Chaos Computer Club (CCC)" have recently been uploading videos to YouTube from their "Remote Chaos Experience rC3" online conference. One talk is by Jacek Lipkowski (SQ5BPF) who presents his...
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Evaluating LoRaWAN Security with an RTL-SDR
Over on their blog Trend Micro have uploaded a post describing how they evaluated the security of LoRaWAN communications using an RTL-SDR. LoRaWAN is a wireless communications technology that allows...
View ArticleDemonstrating How Speakers Can Become an Unintentional RF Transmitter
Over on YouTube channel Privacy & Tech Tips has uploaded a video showing how he used an RTL-SDR to pick up RF emissions coming from some speakers that were unintentionally acting as wireless...
View ArticleReverse Engineering Wireless Mesh Smart Meters with Software Defined Radio
Over on YouTube channel RECESSIM has uploaded a three part series on reverse engineering smart utility meters. In many locations wireless mesh smart electricity meters are installed in houses allowing...
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Smart Meter Hacking Hack Chat to be held April 14 Noon Pacific Time
In the last post from a couple of days ago we posted about RECESSIM's YouTube series about smart meter hacking. Hackaday have noted that Hash, the security researcher behind the RECESSIM channel will...
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Evil Crow RF: An Open Source CC1101 Based Device for Pentesting
The CC1101 is a popular RF silicon chip as it can handle many common digital modulation modes such as OOK/ASK, FSK, GFSK, and MSK within it's hardware. It is not a software defined radio, but rather a...
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Receiving Unintentionally Radiated Signals from the Computer System Bus with...
Back in 2018 we first posted about "System Bus Radio" which is code and a web based app that allows you to transmit RF directly from your computer without any transmitting hardware. It works on the...
View ArticleCloning A Garage Key with RTL-SDR, Universal Radio Hacker and an Arduino
Over on YouTube Adam Łoboda has uploaded a video showing the full steps that he's taken to reverse engineer and clone a wireless garage door key using an RTL-SDR and Arduino. He starts by using the...
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Decoding and Logging GPS Coordinates From Wireless Smart Meters
Back in April we posted about "Hash's" RECESSIM YouTube series on hacking electricity smart meters using a software defined radio. Recently his series continues with a video on decoding and logging the...
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Crimean Resident Arrested under Accusation of Spying for Ukraine with RTL-SDR...
Back in early 2014 Crimea was annexed from the Ukraine by Russian forces. Recently we've heard news that a Crimean resident was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service under the suspicion of...
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Receiving pH Readings from a Wireless Medical Implant with RTL-SDR
Over on Hackaday we've learned about an interesting investigation by James Wu who was recently implanted with a stomach pH (acidity) monitoring device called the "Medtronic Bravo Reflux Capsule"....
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The KiwiSDR Backdoor Situation
Since it's announcement in early 2016 we've posted many times about the KiwiSDR, a 14-bit wideband RX only HF software defined radio created by John Seamons (ZL/KF6VO). The KiwiSDR has up to 32 MHz of...
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BSides Talk: Hacking RF Breaking what we can’t see
Over on YouTube the BSides Halifax channel has uploaded a recent talk given by Security Engineer Grant Colgan titled "Hacking RF Breaking what we can't see". In the talk Grant first shows the various...
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SDR Videos from DEFCON 29
Recently some videos from this years (mostly virtual) DEFCON 29 conference have been uploaded to YouTube. Defcon is a major yearly conference all about information security, and some of the talks deal...
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Snooping Network Traffic from LAN Cables with an RTL-SDR or HackRF
Mordechai Guri is a cyber-security security researcher at Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Recently Guri has described a method for sniffing network data from LAN Ethernet cables over an...
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Remoticon 2021: Smart Meter Hacking Talk
Remoticon 2021 was an online conference held in November 2021 and videos of presentations have recently been uploaded to the Hackaday YouTube channel this month. One very interesting talk was the...
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Reverse Engineering a 30 Year Old Wireless Garage Door Opener with a HackRF...
At his childhood home Maxwell Dulin discovered that his garage door was controlled by a 30 year old system called the "Sears Craftsman 139.53708 Garage Door Remote". Being interested in SDRs Maxwell...
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A Warning to Ukraine Based RTL-SDR Hobbyists
While we usually don't encourage politics on this blog, with the possibility of a Ukraine invasion by Russia we just wanted to issue a general warning to Ukrainian SDR owners. Last year we saw...
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