Collaborate Disseminate
Many wireless headsets using Bluetooth technology have vulnerabilities that may allow malicious individuals to covertly listen in on private conversations, Tarlogic Security researchers have demonstrated last week at RootedCON in Madrid. “Many of… Continue reading BSAM: Open-source methodology for Bluetooth security assessment
It’s a story we’ve heard many times before: if you want to get your data from the Domyos EL500 elliptical trainer, you need to use a proprietary smartphone application that …read more Continue reading Hacking BLE to Liberate Your Exercise Equipment
During [Matt]’s first year of college, he found in a roundabout way that he could avoid crowds in the dining hall by accessing publicly available occupancy data that the dining …read more Continue reading Bluetooth As Proxy for Occupancy
What’s the best kind of upgrade a piece of consumer technology can get? A free one that doesn’t require you to do anything other than accept a new version of …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Pico W Now Supports Bluetooth
Whether you’re making coffee or beer or complex chemicals, weighing your ingredients carefully and tracking them is key to getting good results. [Tech Dregs] decided to build a logging …read more Continue reading The BLE Datalogging Scale Of A Thousand Uses
It’s getting harder and harder to think of a modern premium-level appliance that doesn’t come with some level of Internet connectivity. These days it seems all but the cheapest refrigerators, …read more Continue reading Using GitHub Actions to Brew Coffee
Safe, clean drinking water is a scarce resource that shouldn’t be wasted. But it’s not always easy to see how much you’re using when you turn on the tap: is …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Sensible Flow Helps You Keep Track of Your Water Usage
When a company creates an infrastructure of devices, we sometimes subvert this infrastructure and use it to solve tricky problems. For example, here’s a question that many a hacker has …read more Continue reading Check Your Mailbox Using The AirTag Infrastructure
A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) vulnerability discovered by NCC Group researchers may be used by attackers to unlock Teslas (or other cars with automotive keyless entry), residential smart locks, building access systems, mobile phones, laptops, and many o… Continue reading BLE vulnerability may be exploited to unlock cars, smart locks, building doors, smartphones
The team from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland have come up with TapType, an interesting text input method that relies purely on a pair of …read more Continue reading TapType: AI-Assisted Hand Motion Tracking Using Only Accelerometers