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BSides Talk: Hacking RF Breaking what we can’t see
Over on YouTube the BSides Halifax channel has uploaded a recent talk given by Security Engineer Grant Colgan titled "Hacking RF Breaking what we can't see". In the talk Grant first shows the various...
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A SDR Digital Voice Hotspot with GNU Radio, MMDVM and QRadioLink
Thank you to Adrian (YO8RZZ) for writing in and sharing with us his article explaining how to use an SDR to set up a digital voice hotspot for digital voice modes supported by MMDVM such as D-Star,...
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Installing Remote SDR V2 on a Raspberry Pi 4B
Remote SDR V2 is software that allows you to easily remotely access either a PlutoSDR, HackRF or RTL-SDR software defined radio. It was originally designed to be used with the amateur radio QO-100...
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Snooping Network Traffic from LAN Cables with an RTL-SDR or HackRF
Mordechai Guri is a cyber-security security researcher at Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Recently Guri has described a method for sniffing network data from LAN Ethernet cables over an...
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Receiving Starlink Beacons with a HackRF Supercluster
Over on Reddit member u/OlegKutkov has recently posted about his success at receiving Starlink beacons at 11.325 GHz with his HackRF "supercluster". Starlink is an Elon Musk / SpaceX venture that aims...
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SignalsEverywhere: Spectrum Analyzer and Tracking Generator with Pluto SDR
In the latest video on the Signals Everywhere YouTube channel, Sarah investigates how a PlutoSDR can be used as a Spectrum Analyzer with the SATSAGEN software. The SATSAGEN software is able to work as...
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Technical Details on an SDR Supercluster with Eight HackRFs
A few weeks ago we posted about Reddit member u/OlegKutkov who used his HackRF supercluster to receive Starlink beacons, but details on the HackRF supercluster project itself were a little sparse. Now...
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Comparing a HackRF Clone against the Original
Over on the Great Scott Gadgets blog Michael Ossmann, the lead creator of the original HackRF has put out a post comparing his original HackRF with one of the many clones on the market. The HackRF is a...
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An APRS Tracker with HackRF, WebUSB and WASM
Thank you to Radoslav Gerganov for writing in and submitting news about the release of his open source web-based APRS tracker named "aprs-sdr". The web based software turns a HackRF device into a...
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Reverse Engineering a 30 Year Old Wireless Garage Door Opener with a HackRF...
At his childhood home Maxwell Dulin discovered that his garage door was controlled by a 30 year old system called the "Sears Craftsman 139.53708 Garage Door Remote". Being interested in SDRs Maxwell...
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Turbine: Capture and Stream all Frequencies in a Trunked Radio System with a...
Over on Reddit we've discovered an interesting program called 'Turbine' that has recently been open sourced by the author. This program connects to a wideband capable SDR such as a HackRF and captures...
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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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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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