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SignalsEverywhere: Review of SDR++ on Android
In our last post we mentioned that a 'pre-release' public version of SDR++ for Android was recently released. Now over on the SignalsEverywhere YouTube channel Sarah has uploaded a new video where she...
View ArticleReceiving Analog TV from Turkmenistan Unintentionally Bouncing off a Russian...
Over on Twitter @dereksgc has been monitoring the 'Meridian' communications satellites, which are Russian owned and used for civilian and military purposes. The satellites are simple unsecure...
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Tesla Charging Ports Opened with HackRF Replay Attack
The charging port on Tesla electric vehicles is protected via a cover that can be opened by charging stations via a wireless signal transmitted at 315 MHz. It turns out that the command to open the...
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Lightweight Windows Software uSDR Updated to Version 1.5.0
Since 2021 we've posted about Viol Tailor's "uSDR" (microSDR) software a couple of times. uSDR is a lightweight general purpose multimode program for Windows that supports the RTL-SDR, Airspy, BladeRF,...
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Controlling a Toy RC Car with a HackRF
Over on his blog Radoslav has created a post showing how he has used a HackRF to wirelessly control a toy RC car by reverse engineering the wireless control protocol, and generating the control signals...
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Opening and Starting Honda Civic Vehicles with a HackRF Replay Attack
A few months ago University student Ayyappan Rajesh and HackingIntoYourHeart reported cybersecurity vulnerability CVE-2022-27254. This vulnerability demonstrates how unsecure the remote keyless locking...
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LimeSDR 2.0 Mini Now Crowdfunding, Standard LimeSDR Discontinued
Back in March we posted about the LimeSDR Mini 1.0 becoming end of life due to component shortages, and a slightly upgraded LimeSDR Mini 2.0 was being planned. The LimeSDR Mini 2.0 has just been...
View ArticleRolling-Pwn: Wireless rolling code security completely defeated on all Honda...
Back in May we posted about CVE-2022-27254 where university student researchers discovered that the wireless locking system on several Honda vehicles was vulnerable to simple RF replay attacks. A...
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Fissure: An Open Source RF Reverse Engineering Framework
FISSURE (Frequency Independent SDR-Based Signal Understanding and Reverse Engineering) is a recently released open source framework that runs on Linux, and includes a whole suite of previously existing...
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Software Defined Radio Academy 2022 Conference Talks
Videos of talks from the Software Defined Radio Academy 2022 (SDRA22) conference have recently been uploaded to YouTube. SDRA22 was held during the HAMRadio World Fair in Friedrichshafen, Germany...
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HackRF Opera Cake Released: A Rapid RF Switching Board
Back in 2016 Michael Ossmann, founder of Great Scott Gadgets and creator of the HackRF released schematics for 'Opera Cake', a rapid RF switching add on board for the HackRF. We also saw back in a...
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Car Hacking in the Mr Robot TV Show Explained
Over on YouTube David Bombal has uploaded a video titled "Warning! This is how cars are hacked. Just like in Mr Robot." which explains how the car hacking scenes in Mr Robot worked. Mr Robot is a TV...
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SDRangel Now Available on Android: Mobile ADS-B, AIS, APT, Digital Voice,...
SDRangel is a free open source software defined radio program that is compatible with many SDRs, including RTL-SDRs. SDRAngel is set apart from other programs because of it's huge swath of built in...
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Tech Minds: Testing an RTL-SDR Wideband Scanner with WebUI
Over on YouTube Matt from the Tech Minds YouTube channel has put up a video demonstrating an open source program released on GitHub called "RTL SDR Scanner", or "rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp". This program is...
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Hacking Beepers at a Fish & Chip Shop with an RTL-SDR and HackRF
Over on YouTube Paul from "Tall Paul Tech" has uploaded a video showing how he was able to reverse engineer the wireless protocol used by a simple restaurant beeper (aka 'burger pager') notification...
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Guglielmo FM and DAB Receiver Software Updated to Version 0.5
Thank you to Marco, the programmer of Guglielmo for letting us know that his software has recently been updated to Version 0.5. Guglielmo is a Linux, Windows (and in this recent update x86 MacOS) based...
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Great Scott Gadgets to Develop a Universal Radio Test Instrument (URTI)
Great Scott Gadgets (GSG), creators of the HackRF, YARD Stick One and Great FET (among other products) have announced that they are developing a device called a "Universal Radio Test Instrument...
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Bouncing LoRa Signals off the Moon with a HackRF
One part of the amateur radio hobby is 'EME', or Earth-Moon-Earth. The idea is to bounce radio signals off the surface of the moon, and have them received over a vast distance. Typically weak signal...
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Reverse Engineering a Wirelessly Controlled Adjustable Bed with a HackRF and...
Over on his blog Chris Laplante has written up a post showing how he was able to reverse engineer his wirelessly controlled adjustable "TEMPUR-Contour Elite Breeze" bed. Originally the bed did have an...
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Progress Updates on the GSG Universal Radio Test Instrument (URIT)
In May we posted about how Great Scott Gadgets (GSG), the team behind the HackRF SDR and several other popular products, are in the early stages of developing a new type of SDR product called the...
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