SignalsEverywhere: Creating a DIY Upconverter with a HackRF and RF Mixer
Over on YouTube Corrosive from the SignalsEverywhere channel has uploaded a new video showing us how you can make a DIY upconverter using a HackRF as a signal source and a cheap $10 RF Mixer. An...
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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 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...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere: Exploring Cable Modem Signals with Software Defined Radio
Over on YouTube SignalsEverywhere has just uploaded his latest video about using a HackRF and Airspy R2/Mini to explore the signals coming out of an internet cable modem's coax cable. In the video he...
View ArticleMichael Ossmann & Kate Temkin Present Software Defined Everything with...
At the Hackaday Supercon Michael Ossmann & Kate Temkin presented a talk called "Software-Defined Everything" where they demonstrated some applications of the "GreatFET One" interface board. Michael...
View ArticleOpening a Parking Barrier with a HackRF Portapack and a Replay Attack
Over on YouTube user kwon lee has uploaded a video demonstrating a replay attack against a parking barrier arm. The tools he uses are a HackRF and Portapack running the Havok firmware. A replay attack...
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DragonOS: Debian Linux with Preinstalled Open Source SDR Software
Thank you to Aaron for submitting news about his latest project called "DragonOS" which he's been working on while in COVID-19 lock down. DragonOS is a Debian Linux based operating system which comes...
View ArticleTechMinds: Demonstrating the QT-DAB Digital Audio Broadcast Decoder
Over on YouTube TechMinds has uploaded a video where he explores the QT-DAB software (formerly known as SDR-J), which is a program capable of decoding Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) signals. QT-DAB is...
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Decoding 5GHz NTSC Video from Drones with a HackRF, DragonOS and SigDigger
Over on his YouTube channel Aaron has uploaded a video showing how we can SigDigger to decode analog NTSC video from a drone camera which is transmitted at 5.7 GHz. SigDigger is a rapidly evolving SDR...
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