Collaborate Disseminate
Over the past few months we’ve heard a lot about contact tracers which are designed to inform users if they’ve potentially come into close proximity with someone who has the virus. Generally these systems have been based on smartphone applications, but there are also hardware solutions that can operate independently …read more
Continue reading ESP32 Turned Open Source COVID-19 Contact Tracer
A group of researchers at Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) recently discovered a vulnerability that affects the many IoT devices running Bluetooth. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is the m… Continue reading Bluetooth Reconnection Flaw Could Lead to Spoofing Attacks
Bluetooth is a technology with a very interesting history. When it first came around in the late 1990s, it promised to replace the mess of wires that was tucked behind every desk of the day. Unfortunately, the capabilities of early Bluetooth didn’t live up to the hype, and it never …read more
We admit that a hack enabling a 34-year-old video game peripheral to be controlled by a mobile app wasn’t something we were expecting to see today, but if controlling something with something else isn’t the definition of a classic hack, we don’t know what is. The folks at [Croxel Inc.] …read more
Continue reading 3D Printed Goggles Let R.O.B. See Into The Bluetooth World
Unlike Elliot, real-world adversaries don’t have lofty ideals nor do they suffer crises of conscience. Continue reading Art Imitates Life: Lessons from the Final Season of Mr. Robot
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5 has been around since 2016 with the most recent version 5.2 published just this year. There’s not much hardware out there that’s using the new hotness. That didn’t stop [Damien Cauquil] from picking apart BLE 5’s new frequency hopping techniques and updating his BtleJack tool …read more
Continue reading New Bluetooth 5 Channel Hopping Reverse Engineered for Jamming and Hijacking
Researchers have found a way to beat the MAC address randomisation feature used by Bluetooth to protect users from being tracked. Continue reading Bluetooth LE’s anti-tracking technology beaten
A lack of a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) pairing mechanism leaves the smart IoT devices open to malicious manipulation. Continue reading Hacked Hair Straighteners Can Threaten Homes
Pentesters say a keyless smart lock made by U-tec, called Ultraloq, is neither ultra or secure. Continue reading Smart Lock Turns Out to be Not So Smart, or Secure
Its taken awhile, but thanks to devices like the Amazon Kindle, the cost of e-ink displays are finally at the point where mere mortals such as us can actually start using them in our projects. Now we’ve just got to figure out how to utilize them properly. Sure you can …read more
Continue reading Open Hardware E-Ink Display Just Needs an Idea