[ Also available https://lucasteske.dev/2020/05/hack-a-sat-talk-to-me-goose/ ] This challenge is just after the “Can you hear me now?” challenge (see https://medium.com/@lucasteske/hack-a-sat-can-you-hear-me-now-c6f68ed6086b ). Now LaunchDotCom has a new Satellite called Carnac 2.0. There are two attached files. The first one is the manual of the satellite in which we can see the onboard…

[ Also available at https://lucasteske.dev/2020/05/hack-a-sat-phasors-to-stun/ ] I got really excited about it because its a SDR one. And everyone that knows me know that I love SDR stuff. The zip file itself contains a wav file which they told us is not an audio but an radio signal

[ Also available at https://lucasteske.dev/2020/05/hack-a-sat-can-you-hear-me-now/ ] That challenged asked us to decode a Telemetry data that was being sent over a TCP port. If you open the netcat, the following happen:

[ Also available at https://lucasteske.dev/2019/12/integrating-hacked-touch-panel-into-home-assistant/ ] In the previous article I showed a simple hack of a chinese Touch Panel. Now I have successfully integrated it Home Assistant and I’m able to turn my room light on / off. Here is how. From now on I will assume you have…

[ Also available at https://lucasteske.dev/2019/12/hacking-dimmer-touch-panel-with-esp8266/ ] I bought two of these LED Touch Panel Dimmers in Banggood and they look pretty good. But since my house automation has its own way to controlling the lights I wonder if I could hack them to send info to Home Assistant. The first…

DISCLAIMER: This procedure is highly ilegal basically anywhere in the world. Be sure to run this in a closed RF environment (aka Faraday Cage) This article works with any LimeSDR version. [ Also available at https://lucasteske.dev/2019/12/creating-your-own-gsm-network-with-limesdr/ ] For this example we will use the Osmocom GSM Stack in the…

How to perform a very simple MitM Attack on a Intelbras/Dahua IP Cameras / DVR. This uses Ettercap to do an ARP Poison and a simple GoLang Script to fetch the username/password. Disclaimer: This type of attack is basically illegal anywhere in the world. My intentions with this tutorial is…

That’s not the first time I get a Chinese hardware that has some proprietary protocol that does not follow a single standard. It’s funny because when you get a VERY cheap thing, you expect to use many standards as possible to reduce the development cost, but some chinese developers just…

When the GOES-16 was first announced I got interested in their GRB Downlink (although the first try was at HRIT downlink). Basically GRB is a replacement for the old PDR downlink in GOES 13/14/15 generation, which gives few advantages over the old link: Uses market standard DVB-S2 Generic Stream Have…