2023 Cyberdeck Contest: Cyberdeck Red is Ready for Action
What exactly constitutes a cyberdeck is up for debate, but for us, one thing is clear: A cyberdeck needs to look like it’s ready to go to battle. When the machines finally rise up and try to wipe us...
View ArticleUsing an Old Satellite to See the Earth in a New Light
Snooping in on satellites is getting to be quite popular, enough so that the number of people advancing the state of the art — not to mention the wealth of satellites transmitting signals in the clear...
View ArticleLoRa Goes To The Moon
LoRa is a communications method that allows for long range radio contacts to be made using typically low-powered devices. This shouldn’t be surprising given that LoRa is short for “long range” which...
View ArticleA Gang Of HackRFs Makes For A Wideband SDR
[Oleg Kutkov] decided to build a wideband SDR – for satellite communication research and monitoring, you know, the usual. He decided on a battery of HackRF boards – entire eight of them, in fact. Two...
View ArticleEthernet Cable Turned into Antenna to Exploit Air-Gapped Computers
Good news, everyone! Security researcher [Mordechai Guri] has given us yet another reason to look askance at our computers and wonder who might be sniffing in our private doings. This time, your...
View ArticleMonitor SpaceX Rocket Launches With Software-Defined Radio
The amateur radio community has exploded with activity lately especially in the software-defined radio (SDR) area since it was found that a small inexpensive TV tuner could be wrangled to do what only...
View ArticleHackRF PortaPack Firmware Spoofs All the Things
The HackRF is an exceptionally capable software defined radio (SDR) transceiver, but naturally you need to connect it to a computer to actually do anything with it. So the PortaPack was developed to...
View ArticleSDR Transmitting Gets the Power
Most hobby-grade software defined radio setups don’t transmit. Of the few that do, most of them put out anemic levels around one milliwatt or so. If you want to do something outside of the lab, you’ll...
View ArticleExposing Computer Monitor Side-Channel Vulnerabilities with TempestSDR
Having been endlessly regaled with tales of side-channel attacks and remote exploits, most of us by now realize that almost every piece of gear leaks data like a sieve. Everything from routers to TVs...
View ArticleHacking USB Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, February 26 at noon Pacific for the Hacking USB Hack Chat with Kate Temkin! For all its aggravating idiosyncrasies, the Universal Serial Bus has been a game-changer in peripheral...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Radio Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, September 18 at noon Pacific for the Software Defined Radio Hack Chat with Corrosive! If you’ve been into hobby electronics for even a short time, chances are you’ve got at least...
View ArticleSide-Channel Attack Shows Vulnerabilities of Cryptocurrency Wallets
What’s in your crypto wallet? The simple answer should be fat stacks of Bitcoin or Ethereum and little more. But if you use a hardware cryptocurrency wallet, you may be carrying around a bit fat...
View ArticleYour Table Is Ready, Courtesy Of HackRF
Have you ever found yourself in a crowded restaurant on a Saturday night, holding onto one of those little gadgets that blinks and vibrates when it’s your turn to be seated? Next time, bust out the...
View ArticleDesktop Radio Telescope Images The WiFi Universe
It’s been a project filled with fits and starts, and it very nearly ended up as a “Fail of the Week” feature, but we’re happy to report that the [Thought Emporium]’s desktop WiFi radio telescope...
View ArticleShmoocon: Delightful Doppler Direction Finding With Software Defined Radio
When it comes to finding what direction a radio signal is coming from, the best and cheapest way to accomplish the task is usually a Yagi and getting dizzy. There are other methods, and at Shmoocon...
View ArticleReverse Engineering the Nintendo Wavebird
Readers who were firmly on Team Nintendo in the early 2000’s or so can tell you that there was no accessory cooler for the Nintendo GameCube than the WaveBird. Previous attempts at wireless game...
View ArticleCPLD-Based Synchronization of Multiple Software Defined Radios
Forgive the click bait headline, but the latest work from [Marco Bartolucci] and [José A. del Peral-Rosado] is really great. They’re using multiple HackRFs, synchronized together, with hybrid...
View ArticleExposing Dinosaur Phone Insecurity With Software Defined Radio
Long before everyone had a smartphone or two, the implementation of a telephone was much stranger than today. Most telephones had real, physical buttons. Even more bizarrely, these phones were...
View ArticleSDR and Node.js Remote-Controlled Monster Drift
Most old-school remote controlled cars broadcast their controls on 27 MHz. Some software-defined radio (SDR) units will go that low. The rest, as we hardware folks like to say, is a simple matter of...
View ArticlePokemon Go Cheat Fools GPS with Software Defined Radio
Using Xcode to spoof GPS locations in Pokemon Go (like we saw this morning) isn’t that much of a hack, and frankly, it’s not even a legit GPS spoof. After all, it’s not like we’re using an SDR to spoof...
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