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Using RTL_433 to Decode SimpliSafe Home Security Systems
SimpliSafe is an American DIY home security system company that claims over 2 million customers. Their system relies on 433/315 MHz ISM band wireless radio communications between its various sensors,...
View ArticleYouTube Talk: Introduction to DSpectrum for Reverse Engineering Signals
Over on YouTube a talk from the author of DSpectrum has been uploaded from his talk during the 13th Cyberspectrum Melbourne meetup. In his talk he goes through the full process of reverse engineering a...
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Reverse Engineering Wireless Blinds with an RTL-SDR and Controlling them with...
Amazon Alexa is a smart speaker that can be programmed to control home automation devices via voice commands. For example, Stuart Hinson wanted to be able to control his wirelessly controlled blinds...
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...
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Reverse Engineering and Controlling a Wireless Doorbell with an RTL-SDR and...
Thank you to Shreyas Ubale for submitting his blog post about reverse engineering a wireless doorbell, and then performing a replay attack. Shreyas had purchased a wireless doorbell set containing one...
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SigDigger: A Graphical Digital Signal Analyzer for Linux
Recently a new open source Linux based SDR application called SigDigger was released by programmer BatchDrake (Gonzalo J. Carracedo). It is based on his own DSP libraries called Sigutils and Suscan...
View ArticleYouTube Video: Reverse Engineering with SDR
Over on YouTube Black Hills Information Security (aka Paul Clark) has uploaded a one hour long presentation that shows how to use a software defined radio to reverse engineer digital signals using GNU...
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Reverse Engineering and Controlling a Pan-Tilt Camera Servo with an RTL-SDR...
The ZIFON YT-500 is a pan-tilt tripod designed for mounting small cameras and smart phones. It also comes with an RF based 433 MHz wireless remote control that allows you to remotely control the...
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Decoding Radio Telemetry Heard on News Helicopter Video Footage with GNU Radio
Twitter user @d0tslash was watching news helicopter footage of the BLM protests on the 28th of May when he heard something that sounded like an RF telemetry feed in the background audio on the...
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Converting an Old Cable Modem into an SDR
Over on his github blog, user stdw has uploaded a comprehensive post explaining how he investigated and turned an old Motorola MB7220 cable modem that was sitting in his closet into a fully functional...
View ArticleHacking a Ceiling Fan Radio Control Signal with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube "River's Educational Channel" has uploaded a video showing how he was able to reverse engineer the wireless control signal from his ceiling fan remote, and use that information to...
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Evil Crow RF: An Open Source CC1101 Based Device for Pentesting
The CC1101 is a popular RF silicon chip as it can handle many common digital modulation modes such as OOK/ASK, FSK, GFSK, and MSK within it's hardware. It is not a software defined radio, but rather a...
View ArticleCloning A Garage Key with RTL-SDR, Universal Radio Hacker and an Arduino
Over on YouTube Adam Łoboda has uploaded a video showing the full steps that he's taken to reverse engineer and clone a wireless garage door key using an RTL-SDR and Arduino. He starts by using the...
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Receiving pH Readings from a Wireless Medical Implant with RTL-SDR
Over on Hackaday we've learned about an interesting investigation by James Wu who was recently implanted with a stomach pH (acidity) monitoring device called the "Medtronic Bravo Reflux Capsule"....
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Hacking a La Crosse Weather Station with an RTL-SDR, PlutoSDR and Universal...
Thank you to Ryan K for submitting his latest blog post where he gives an in depth explanation of how he reverse engineered his La Crosse weather station using an RTL-SDR, PlutoSDR and the Universal...
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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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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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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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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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