Hunting rogue WiFi devices using the HackRF SDR

Talk

Mike Davis will be giving a talk titled: "Hunting rogue WiFi devices using the HackRF SDR"

Abstract

Rogue WiFi Access Points are a serious security risk for today's connected society. Devices such as the Hak5 Pineapple, ESP8266-based 'throwies', or someone with the right WiFi card and software can be used to intercept users' traffic and grab all of their credentials. Finding these rogue devices is a very difficult thing to achieve without specialised equipment. In this talk Mike will discuss the work he has been doing over the past year, to use the HackRF SDR as a RF Direction-finding device, with the goal of hunting down various malicious RF devices, including car remote jammers.

Speaker

Mike Davis (@elasticninja) is passionate about software defined radio and is currently pursuing his MSc in Information Security.

Parking

There are two parking levels, each with a separate entrance. There are VOSS marked bays each with an A4 size sign in both parking levels. Which level to park in basically comes down to which one has more free bays which is hard to predict. One entrance (to the upper parking) is up the ramp past the fountain. Turn right once you go through the boom. Just keep turning right. The other entrance (to the lower parking) is down the ramp (opposite Discovery entrance). Go through the boom, drive straight for a little bit and then turn right (there is no other option). Drive all the way to the end. Then just keep turning right. At the boom you should buzz security and tell them that you're coming to see VOSS.

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