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IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook

By : Aaron Guzman, Aditya Gupta
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IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook

By: Aaron Guzman, Aditya Gupta

Overview of this book

IoT is an upcoming trend in the IT industry today; there are a lot of IoT devices on the market, but there is a minimal understanding of how to safeguard them. If you are a security enthusiast or pentester, this book will help you understand how to exploit and secure IoT devices. This book follows a recipe-based approach, giving you practical experience in securing upcoming smart devices. It starts with practical recipes on how to analyze IoT device architectures and identify vulnerabilities. Then, it focuses on enhancing your pentesting skill set, teaching you how to exploit a vulnerable IoT device, along with identifying vulnerabilities in IoT device firmware. Next, this book teaches you how to secure embedded devices and exploit smart devices with hardware techniques. Moving forward, this book reveals advanced hardware pentesting techniques, along with software-defined, radio-based IoT pentesting with Zigbee and Z-Wave. Finally, this book also covers how to use new and unique pentesting techniques for different IoT devices, along with smart devices connected to the cloud. By the end of this book, you will have a fair understanding of how to use different pentesting techniques to exploit and secure various IoT devices.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Threat modeling an IoT mobile application


For our next threat modeling exercise, we will examine IoT mobile applications for our DVR system. This DVR system (like many others in IoT) has several mobile applications available developed by resellers and different OEMs. For demonstration purposes, we will only threat model one Android and one iOS application.

How to do it...

Since we have the majority of our data flow diagrams created from previous recipes, we will continue to use the same Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool for this recipe.

Step 1: Creating an architecture overview and decomposition

Similar to our last couple of recipes, we will jump right to creating a data flow diagram which includes all known assets for the mobile applications. The following is the data flow diagram for the mobile applications:

We can see that the applications contact the third-party vendor cloud environment each time in order to view account details and camera feeds. This also occurs when the user is in the same...