{"id":60,"date":"2009-01-07T23:24:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T22:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lessradiation.co.uk\/?p=60"},"modified":"2009-01-07T23:24:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T22:24:42","slug":"dect-hacked-eavesdropping-now-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/01\/07\/dect-hacked-eavesdropping-now-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"DECT Hacked &#8211; Eavesdropping Now Possible!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through the Security News on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/security\">TheRegister.co.uk<\/a> this evening I was surprised to see a report that DECT has now been hacked.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t know already, DECT is the technology used by the current generation of cordless home phones &amp; baby monitors. So now, not only is it probably bad for you, it&#8217;s also insecure!<\/p>\n<p>The researchers reverse-engineered a standard Com-On-Air PCMCIA DECT card &#8211; which is normally used in a Windows laptop to bridge\/ link DECT phones to Asterisk VOIP\/SIP networks &#8211; and demonstrated their Linux-based sniffer at 25C3 hackers congress.<\/p>\n<p>The PCMCIA Class II card costs just \u20ac40 from www.arc-computer.de (in Germany, you can buy one via their eBay shop). You will need a PC running Linux to do anything useful with it, and really it&#8217;s just a proof-of-concept tool right now. But watch this space.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/events.ccc.de\/congress\/2008\/Fahrplan\/events\/2937.en.html\">http:\/\/events.ccc.de\/congress\/2008\/Fahrplan\/events\/2937.en.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/12\/31\/dect_hack\/\">http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/12\/31\/dect_hack\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dedected.org\/cgi-bin\/trac.cgi\">https:\/\/dedected.org\/cgi-bin\/trac.cgi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through the Security News on TheRegister.co.uk this evening I was surprised to see a report that DECT has now been hacked. If you didn&#8217;t know already, DECT is the technology used by the current generation of cordless home phones &amp; baby monitors. So now, not only is it probably bad for you, it&#8217;s also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[21,22,27,30,37,38,41,58],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dect","category-general","tag-com-on-air","tag-compromised","tag-dect","tag-eavesdropping","tag-hacked","tag-hacking","tag-insecure","tag-vulnerable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}