Iridium Satellite Hacking

Presented at The Eleventh HOPE (2016), July 24, 2016, noon (60 minutes)

The Iridium satellite system has been in orbit for over 15 years now and provides various data and voice services. This talk will show how to use Software Defined Radio (SDR) to receive and decode data from the Iridium satellite network and how a lot of reverse engineering was performed to understand the protocol and decode the details.

Presenters:

• Stefan Zehl / Sec   as Stefan "Sec" Zehl
  Stefan "Sec" Zehl studied computer science and has been working for various companies in the security industry, is a longtime member of the Chaos Computer Club, and is one of the founders of the Munich CCC group. He was part of the team that created the rad1o badge for the Chaos Communication Camp - delivering 4500 broadband SDRs based on the HackRF to the security researcher community.
• schneider
  schneider is an embedded software and hardware developer and member of the Munich Chaos Computer Club group. He likes to hit the "Remote Update" button for thousands of devices every now and then.

Links:

• https://xi.hope.net/schedule.html#-iridium-satellite-hacking- (Conference Schedule)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Eleventh HOPE (2016)/The Eleventh HOPE (2016) Iridium Satellite Hacking.srt (subtitles)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Eleventh HOPE (2016)/The Eleventh HOPE (2016) Iridium Satellite Hacking.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJT7Cvh6NE

Similar Presentations:

• 31C3 (2014) / Iridium Pager Hacking
• ToorCamp 2018 / gr-iridium: Under the hood: Demodulating 1000 frames/s from space
• 32C3 (2015) / Iridium Update : more than just pagers