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Building a Car Hacking Test Bench
Modern cars are computers on wheel, dozens of ECUs, multiple busses, wireless interfaces, and a threat model that keeps expanding. For the past few years I dipped my toes in the automotive security scene. It’s now time to take a deep …
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How to extract an AppImage and add it to the Ubuntu Sidebar
In this post, we’ll guide you through extracting an AppImage and integrating it into the Ubuntu sidebar for easy access. As an example, we’ll use SavvyCAN, a CANBus reverse engineering tool.
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Committing Changes to a Pull Request Branch Created from a Fork
Sometimes a pull request on GitHub.com needs some work before it can be merged into the project but you don’t want to force the required work on the pull requests original author. You’re allowed to make changes to the pull …
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Spoofing Microchips used for Animal Identification
A microchip implanted under the skin of an animal can be used for identification purposes. The microchips are using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to transmit an unique tag number using an electromagnetic field when in …
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How to Automatically Generate Clients for your REST API
While helping a colleague with adding some code to the bunq Python SDK to allow him to retrieve some additional information from the API (bunq/sdk_python#148), we noticed that the SDK was automatically generated. We’ve eventually …
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Git Branching
Introduction Like other version control systems Git also support a way to diverge from the main line of development and continue to do work without messing with that main line, it’s called branching. Unlike may other version control …
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Getting Started with Git
Introduction Git is a free and opensource distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. While working with Git I often get asked questions about best practices …
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How To Create a Visual Studio Code Extension Pack
Within Visual Studio Code you will often find yourself installing multiple extensions for a certain language or framework. You might want to share those collections of extensions with your friends or colleagues, be able to easily disable or …
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Ding Dong Ditch using SDR and Arduino
In this post we will be building a device to play Ding Dong Ditch digitally. The device will ring the doorbell every several seconds without pressing the button. This project is all about reverse engineering radio frequencies using a …
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Hardware Reversing the Sitecom Wireless Router 150N X1
Last week I’ve bought a Rigol DS1102E digital oscilloscope and was very eager to test it out. When going to my bin of old hardware I’ve found a Sitecom Wireless Router 150N X1. After opening up the router I immediately spotted …
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Update YARD Stick One Firmware
Today I received my YARD Stick One (Yet Another Radio Dongle) created by Great Scott Gadgets. The dongle can transmit and receive digital wireless signals at frequencies below 1GHz. The YARD Stick One is not a SDR, because the I/Q samples …
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Software Defined Radio on Linux
In the quick start guide for Software Defined Radio (SDR) on Linux we will listen to some very common frequencies using a RTL-SDR. SDR is a radio communication system where traditional hardware components are instead implemented in …
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