YouTube Tutorial: Eavesdropping on DECT6.0 Cordless Phones with a HackRF and...
Back in December of last year Corrosive from his YouTube channel SignalsEverywhere showed us a demo video of him receiving unecrypted DECT digital cordless phones with his HackRF. DECT is an acronym...
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SigintOS: A Linux Distro for Signal Intelligence
Recently we've heard of a new Linux distribution called SigintOS becoming available for download. SigintOS is an Ubuntu based distribution with a number of built in signal intelligence applications for...
View ArticleUsing a HackRF to Reverse Engineer and Control Restaurant Pagers
Several years ago back in 2013 and 2014 we uploaded two posts showing how it was possible to use an SDR to listen in to restaurant pagers and collect data from them, and also to spoof their signal and...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: What SDR To Buy? Choose the Right one For You
Over on his YouTube channel SignalsEverywhere, Corrosive has just released a new video titled "Software Defined Radio Introduction | What SDR To Buy? | Choose the Right one For You". The video is an...
View ArticleHak5: Hacking Ford Key Fobs with a HackRF and Portapack
This weeks episode of Hak5 (an information security themed YouTube channel) features Dale Wooden (@TB69RR) who joins hosts Shannon and Darren to demonstrate a zero day vulnerability against Ford...
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Running a Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot off the Road with GPS Spoofing
Regulus is a company that deals with sensor security issues. In one of their latest experiments they've performed GPS spoofing with several SDRs to show how easy it is to divert a Tesla Model 3 driving...
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SDRTrunk 0.4.0 Alpha 9 Updates Highlighted
You may recall that a few years ago we released a tutorial on how to set up and use [SDRTrunk]. Fast forward a few years and the software has seen numerous changes. This application was designed...
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Using a Drone and HackRF to Inject URLs, Phish For Passwords on Internet...
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. At this years Defcon conference security researcher Pedro Cabrera held a talk...
View ArticleAndreas Spiess Explains Software Defined Radio in YouTube Video
Over on YouTube Andreas Spiess has uploaded a video titled "How does Software Defined Radio (SDR) work under the Hood?". The video is an entertaining introduction to how software defined radio works...
View ArticleUsing a HackRF SDR to Sniff RF Emissions from a Crytocurrency Hardware Wallet...
At last years Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) Conference, leveldown security presented their findings on multiple security vulnerabilities present in cryptocurrency hardware wallets....
View ArticleExploring the Limits of General Purpose SDR Devices
Back in August 2019 the Chaos Communication Camp was held in Germany. This is a 5 day conference that covers a variety of hacker topics, sometimes including SDR. At the conference Osmocom developer...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Pagers with the HackRF PortaPack and an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user HackedExistence has uploaded a video explaining how POCSAG pager signals work, and he also shows some experiments that he's been performing with his HackRF PortaPack and an old...
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SDR in the Local Newspaper: Investigating an RF Dead Spot for Car Key Fobs
Reddit user [SDR_LumberJack] writes how he was recently featured in his local newspaper [Part2] in Ontario, Canada thanks to his efforts in helping to hunt down the cause of an RF deadspot with an SDR....
View ArticleTutorial on Performing a Replay Attack with a HackRF and Universal Radio Hacker
Over on YouTube channel Tech Minds has uploaded a short tutorial video that shows how to perform a replay attack with a HackRF and the Universal Radio Hacker software. A replay attack is when you...
View ArticleInvestigating Problems with the Tesla HomeLink RF Signal with a HackRF and...
Tesla vehicles have a feature where they can copy and mimic a garage door remote via a built in transmitter on the car itself. This frees you from having to carry around a garage door key fob, and you...
View ArticleUsing a HackRF to Investigate Why WiFi on the Raspberry Pi 4 Doesn’t work...
The Raspberry Pi 4 launched with it's fair share of problems, but a new problem seems to have been recently discovered and documented. It turns out that the Pi 4's WiFi stops working when running at a...
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RTL-SDR and HackRF Used in Mr. Robot – A TV Drama About Hacking
A few readers have written in to let us know the role SDRs played in the last season of "Mr. Robot". The show which is available on Amazon Prime is about "Mr. Robot", a young cyber-security engineer by...
View ArticleUsing a HackRF for GPS Spoofing on Windows
Over on the TechMinds YouTube channel a new video titled "GPS Spoofing With The HackRF On Windows" has been uploaded. In the video TechMinds uses the GPS-SDR-SIM software with his HackRF to create a...
View ArticleUsing HackRFs to Locate a UAV Transmitter via Signal Strength Analysis
During the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting conference, authors Xuemei Huang, Kun Yan, Hsiao-Chun Wu and Yiyan Wu presented a research paper titled...
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Creating a Low Cost Ground Penetrating Radar with Two HackRFs
A ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a system that uses RF pulses between 10 to 2.6 GHz to image up to a few meters below the ground. A typical GPR system consists of a transmitting radio and antenna...
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