Reverse Engineering for a Secure Future: Talk by Samy Kamkar
During the Hackaday superconference held during November 2017, Samy Kamkar presented a talk on how he reverse engineers devices, and in particular passive entry and start systems in vehicles. In the...
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Reverse Engineering or Brute Forcing Wireless Powerplug Remote Controls with...
Over on his blog "Foo-Manroot" has created a post where he shows us how he can control a wirelessly controlled powerplug with his HackRF. These power plugs can be used to turn electrically devices on...
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Schmoocon 18: Live Stream of Micheal Ossmann and Schuyler St. Leger on...
Micheal Ossmann @michaelossmann (famous for creating the HackRF SDR and various other projects) and Schuyler St. Leger @DocProfSky (a very talented young man) will soon be presenting their...
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Pseudo-Doppler Direction Finding with a HackRF and Opera Cake
Last week we posted about Micheal Ossmann and Schuyler St. Leger's talk on Pseudo-Doppler direction finding with the HackRF. The talk was streamed live from Schmoocon 18, but there doesn't seem to be...
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Upcoming Book “Inside Radio: An Attack and Defense Guide”
Unicorn team are information security researchers who often also dabble with wireless security research. Recently they have been promoting their upcoming text book titled "Inside Radio: An Attack and...
View ArticleViewing Drone Signals with HackRF being used as a Wideband Spectrum Analyzer
Over on his YouTube channel user Andy Clarke has uploaded a video where he demonstrates his HackRF being used as a wideband spectrum analyzer with the HackRF Spectrum Analyzer software. About a year...
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Measuring the Noise Figure of Airspy and HackRF SDRs in Real Time
The Noise Figure (NF) is an important metric for low noise amplifiers and SDRs. It's a measure of how much components in the signal chain degrade the SNR of a signal, so a low noise figure metric...
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Developing an Alternative To GPS with a HackRF
The Aerospace Sextant System The LA Times recently ran a story that discussed how vulnerable GPS is to malicious spoofing. This has been well known for a number of years now with researchers having...
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A Review of the HackRF PortaPack (With Havoc Firmware)
The PortaPack is a US$220 add-on for the HackRF software defined radio (HackRF + PortaPack + Accessory Amazon bundle) which allows you to go portable with the HackRF and a battery pack. It features a...
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Wireless LAN Professionals Podcast: What is HackRF, PortaPack, and HAVOC?
Over on the Wireless LAN Professional Podcast Keith and Blake Krone discuss the HackRF, PortaPack and the Havoc firmware in episode 138. The HackRF is a US$299 transmit capable SDR which has been very...
View ArticleUsing a HackRF to Transmit To a Local Repeater
Over on YouTube Tech Minds has uploaded a new video where he shows how he can use his HackRF SDR with the SDRAngel software to easily transmit voice to a local ham radio repeater. If you are unfamiliar...
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Creating a Linear Transponder with an RTL-SDR, HackRF and Raspberry Pi
A linear transponder is essentially a repeater that works on a range of frequencies instead of a fixed frequency. For example, a normal repeater may receive at 145 MHz, and repeat the signal at 435...
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Generating a WiFi Radio Heatmap with a Helical Antenna, Antenna Rotator and a...
Over on YouTube The Thought Emporium channel has been working on creating a "WiFi Camera" over the past few weeks. The idea is to essentially create a small radio telescope that can "see" WiFi signals,...
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Cloned SDRPlay and Airspy Units Now Appearing on Aliexpress/eBay
Recently we've found that there are now cloned units of SDRplay RSP1 and Airspy R2 units appearing on Aliexpress and eBay. (We won't link them here to avoid improving the Google ranking of the clone...
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Using a HackRF to Spoof GPS Navigation in Cars and Divert Drivers
Researchers at Virginia Tech, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Microsoft recently released a paper discussing how they were able to perform a GPS spoofing attack that...
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Using a HackRF SDR to Withhold Treatment from an Insulin Pump
A MiniMed Insulin Pump Recently Arstechnica ran a story about how during this August's Black Hat security conference, researchers Billy Rios and Jonathan Butts revealed that a HackRF software defined...
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Listening To Multiple DMR Channels with DSD+ and a HackRF on Linux
Thanks to Tony C who wrote in and wanted to share a method that he's found to listen to multiple DMR digital voice channels in Linux. DSD+ is a Windows program that can be used to decode DMR. Although...
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Using the HackRF PortaPack To Perform a Mag-Stripe Audio Spoof
Over on his blog author "netxing" has uploaded a post describing how he was able to use a Portapack to spoof mag-stripe info stored on credit/debit cards. The idea based around an old trick called...
View ArticleBlack Friday SDR Sales: Airspy 15% Off, SDrplay RSP2 $20 Off, HackRF 20% Off
Airspy Airspy is currently running a 15% Black Friday sale over on the manufacturers website iead.cc, and on their US distributor airspy.us. The coupon code is BF2018. This results in an Airspy Mini...
View ArticleListening in to a DECT Digital Cordless Phone with a HackRF
Over on YouTube SignalsEverywhere (aka Corrosive) has uploaded a new video where he shows a demonstration of him listening in to a DECT digital cordless phone with his HackRF. DECT is an acronym for...
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