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Practical Hardware Pentesting. A guide to attacking embedded systems and protecting them against the most common hardware attacks

Practical Hardware Pentesting. A guide to attacking embedded systems and protecting them against the most common hardware attacks

Jean-Georges Valle

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If you’re looking for hands-on introduction to pentesting that delivers, then Practical Hardware Pentesting is for you. This book will help you plan attacks, hack your embedded devices, and secure the hardware infrastructure.
Throughout the book, you will see how a specific device works, explore the functional and security aspects, and learn how a system senses and communicates with the outside world. You’ll set up a lab from scratch and then gradually work towards an advanced hardware lab—but you’ll still be able to follow along with a basic setup. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with the global architecture of an embedded system and sniff on-board traffic, learn how to identify and formalize threats to the embedded system, and understand its relationship with its ecosystem. You’ll discover how to analyze your hardware and locate its possible system vulnerabilities before going on to explore firmware dumping, analysis, and exploitation. The reverse engineering chapter will get you thinking from an attacker point of view; you’ll understand how devices are attacked, how they are compromised, and how you can harden a device against the most common hardware attack vectors. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with security best practices and understand how they can be implemented to secure your hardware.
  • 1. Setting Up Your Pentesting Lab and Ensuring Lab Safety
  • 2. Understanding Your Target
  • 3. Identifying the Components of Your Target
  • 4. Approaching and Planning the Test
  • 5. Our Main Attack Platform
  • 6. Sniffing and Attacking the Most Common Protocols
  • 7. Extracting and Manipulating Onboard Storage
  • 8. Attacking Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and BLE
  • 9. Software-Defined Radio Attacks
  • 10. Accessing the Debug Interfaces
  • 11. Static Reverse Engineering and Analysis
  • 12. Dynamic Reverse Engineering
  • 13. Scoring and Reporting Your Vulnerabilities
  • 14. Wrapping It Up – Mitigations and Good Practices
  • Title: Practical Hardware Pentesting. A guide to attacking embedded systems and protecting them against the most common hardware attacks
  • Author: Jean-Georges Valle
  • Original title: Practical Hardware Pentesting. A guide to attacking embedded systems and protecting them against the most common hardware attacks
  • ISBN: 9781789614190, 9781789614190
  • Date of issue: 2021-04-01
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2a3b
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing