RF Village·26 min
m0nkeydrag0n
Investigates in-flight commercial airline Wi-Fi infrastructure and Evil Twin rogue access points, detailing SOC analyst detection strategies using ADS-B telemetry.
aviationwifievil-twin+2
DEF CON 33/RF Village across years
RF Village DC33
Las Vegas Convention Center · 8–10 August 2025 · 13 talks
DEF CON 33 RF Village features presentations, demonstrations, and contests exploring radio frequency security, software-defined radio, and wireless protocols. Sessions cover Meshtastic LoRa reverse engineering, aerial wardriving from general aviation aircraft, cellular testbeds for IMSI catcher detection, and smartcard analysis.
1–13 of 13 talks
RF Village·25 min
Allan Riordan Ball
Allan Riordan Ball demonstrates bypassing SSIDs, handshakes, and IP stacks to sling raw 802.11 frames with Scapy as a peer-to-peer data transport pipe.
wifi802-11scapy+2
RF Village·45 min
Loaning
Reverse engineers commercial 802.11ah Wi-Fi hardware to design a custom solar-powered long-range repeater running OpenWrt for off-grid remote connectivity.
wifihardwareopenwrt+2
RF Village·39 min
Eric Escobar
Eric Escobar details building an out-of-band command-and-control infrastructure using $25 Meshtastic LoRa radios to manage remote Linux dropboxes.
meshtasticc2lora+2
RF Village·29 min
Allan Riordan Ball
Deconstructs the Meshtastic LoRa protocol layer by layer using SDRs, GNU Radio, and Python, demonstrating frame decoding and packet transmission without mobile apps.
meshtasticlorasdr+2
RF Village·26 min
Ron Broberg
Details building open-source 2G, 4G, and 5G cellular base station testbeds with SDRs to evaluate and benchmark EFF's Rayhunter IMSI catcher detector.
cellularimsi-catcheropen-source+2
RF Village·40 min
Dan Perret
Explains how the RF Village Capture the Flag team designs wireless challenges and automates over-the-air signal transmission using challengectl.
sdrcontestrf+2
RF Village·47 min
Manuel Rabid
Analyzes the VHF Weather Radio SAME protocol and seismic alert systems (SASMEX), demonstrating how unauthenticated broadcast signals risk false alarms.
rfsdrcritical-infrastructure+2
RF Village·43 min
Exploding Lemur
Breaks down radio frequency fundamentals, antenna physics, filters, Shannon-Nyquist modulation theories, and Software-Defined Radio architectures for beginners.
wirelessrfsdr+2
RF Village·35 min
Grey Fox
Walks through a time-constrained tactical scenario using an off-the-shelf Flipper Zero for rapid RF reconnaissance across sub-GHz, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.
flipper-zerowirelesssub-ghz+2
RF Village·31 min
Aidan Nakache · Equip
Details reverse engineering stored-value contactless laundry cards, uncovering data structure vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary balance modification.
smartcardreverse-engineeringnfc+2
RF Village·25 min
Matthew Thomassen · Sean McKeever
Presents aerial Wi-Fi scanning research from a Cessna aircraft, analyzing antenna configurations, altitude effects, and thousands of captured airborne access points.
wardrivingwarflyingwifi+2
RF Village·14 min
MrBill · CoD_Segfault
MrBill and CoD_Segfault present a humorous, curated showcase of wardriving antennas, vehicle setups, and community culture from the hacker community.
wardrivingcommunityculture+2