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RTL-SDR Tutorial: Analyzing GSM with Airprobe and Wireshark
The RTL-SDR software defined radio can be used to analyze cellular phone GSM signals, using Linux based tools Airprobe and Wireshark. This tutorial shows how I set up these tools for use with the...
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How to Calibrate RTL-SDR using Kalibrate-RTL on Linux
YouTube user NeedSec has posted a good tutorial video showing how to use Kalibriate-RTL, a program used to determine the frequency offset error of your RTL-SDR dongle. Every RTL-SDR dongle will have a...
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Receiving, Decoding and Decrypting GSM Signals with the RTL-SDR
A while back we did a small write up on receiving and analyzing cellular GSM signals with the RTL-SDR. Now blogger Domi has taken it further and has done an excellent big write up on his blog showing...
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Receiving, Decoding and Decrypting GSM with the RTL-SDR : YouTube Talk and...
A few days ago we posted about how Domi aka Domonkos Tomcsányi wrote on his blog about decoding and decrypting GSM signals from your own cell phones. Domi also did a talk at the CampZero conference...
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Pytacle – A GSM Decoding/Decrypting Tool Now Supports RTL-SDR
Pytacle, a Linux tool used for automating GSM sniffing has been updated to alpha2, and now supports the RTL-SDR dongle with this update. According to the website pytacle is a tool inspired by tentacle....
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Hak5: Using A RTL-SDR To Learn About The GSM Network Around You
The popular YouTube electronics channel Hak5 has uploaded a video showing how they analyzed GSM signals using an RTL-SDR, Wireshark and Airprobe. In their video they use parts of our analyzing GSM...
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Sniffing and Analyzing GSM Signals with GR-GSM
Over a year ago we wrote a tutorial on how to analyze GSM cellular phone signals using a RTL-SDR, a Linux computer with GNU Radio, Wireshark and a GSM decoder called Airprobe. With this combination it...
View ArticleVideo showing SMS Texts and Voice Calls being sniffed with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user Osama SH has uploaded a video briefly showing the steps needed to use an RTL-SDR dongle to sniff some SMS text messages and voice calls made from his own phone. This can be done if...
View ArticleHacking GSM Signals with an RTL-SDR and Topguw
The ability to hack some GSM signals has been around for some time now, but the steps to reproduce the hack have been long and difficult to set up. Recently RTL-SDR.com reader Bastien wrote into us to...
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Building your own Rogue GSM Basestation with a BladeRF
Over on his blog author Simone Margaritelli has added a tutorial that shows how to set up a bladeRF to act as a GSM basestation (cell tower). Having your own GSM basestation allows you to create your...
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CNxROOT Two Posts: How to Build an RTL-SDR Server with OpenWRT, Creating a...
Recently security researcher cnxroot wrote in to let us know about two of his posts that may be of interest to readers. The posts are written in Chinese, so please use Google Translate to read them in...
View ArticleCamp++ YouTube Talk: GSM Signal Sniffing for Everyone with GR-GSM and Multi-RTL
Over on YouTube the channel Budapest Hackerspace has recently uploaded a talk by Piotr Krysik which was given during the August 2016 Camp++ 0x7e0 information security conference. The talk is titled:...
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Using an RTL-SDR as a Simple IMSI Catcher
Over on YouTube user Keld Norman has uploaded a video showing how he uses an RTL-SDR with gr-gsm and a Python script to create a simple IMSI catcher. IMSI stands for International mobile subscriber...
View ArticleHak5: Using A RTL-SDR To Learn About The GSM Network Around You
The popular YouTube electronics channel Hak5 has uploaded a video showing how they analyzed GSM signals using an RTL-SDR, Wireshark and Airprobe. In their video they use parts of our analyzing GSM...
View ArticleSniffing and Analyzing GSM Signals with GR-GSM
Over a year ago we wrote a tutorial on how to analyze GSM cellular phone signals using a RTL-SDR, a Linux computer with GNU Radio, Wireshark and a GSM decoder called Airprobe. With this combination it...
View ArticleVideo showing SMS Texts and Voice Calls being sniffed with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube user Osama SH has uploaded a video briefly showing the steps needed to use an RTL-SDR dongle to sniff some SMS text messages and voice calls made from his own phone. This can be done if...
View ArticleHacking GSM Signals with an RTL-SDR and Topguw
The ability to hack some GSM signals has been around for some time now, but the steps to reproduce the hack have been long and difficult to set up. Recently RTL-SDR.com reader Bastien wrote into us to...
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Building your own Rogue GSM Basestation with a BladeRF
Over on his blog author Simone Margaritelli has added a tutorial that shows how to set up a bladeRF to act as a GSM basestation (cell tower). Having your own GSM basestation allows you to create your...
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CNxROOT Two Posts: How to Build an RTL-SDR Server with OpenWRT, Creating a...
Recently security researcher cnxroot wrote in to let us know about two of his posts that may be of interest to readers. The posts are written in Chinese, so please use Google Translate to read them in...
View ArticleCamp++ YouTube Talk: GSM Signal Sniffing for Everyone with GR-GSM and Multi-RTL
Over on YouTube the channel Budapest Hackerspace has recently uploaded a talk by Piotr Krysik which was given during the August 2016 Camp++ 0x7e0 information security conference. The talk is titled:...
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