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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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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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GammaRF: Distributed Radio Signal Collection and Analysis with RTL-SDR and...
Thank you to Josh for submitting news about his project called GammaRF. GammaRF is an client-server program that is used to aggregate signal information via the internet from distributed SDRs....
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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...
View ArticleYouTube 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...
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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Medtronic Minimed Insulin Pumps Recalled due to Wireless Security...
A MiniMed Insulin Pump Back at the 2018 Black Hat conference it was revealed by security researchers Billy Rios and Jonathan Butts that a HackRF could be used to take control of a Medtronic insulin...
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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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