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Practical Hardware Pentesting

By : Jean-Georges Valle
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Practical Hardware Pentesting

By: Jean-Georges Valle

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting to Know the Hardware
6
Section 2: Attacking the Hardware
12
Section 3: Attacking the Software

Questions

The following questions have not necessarily been answered in this chapter, so you may need to do some research on your own. The first part of this chapter was about searching for information on an unknown system. Use your head or your keyboard!

  1. When you are arranging the contractual framework for pentesting with your client, how many test systems should you request?
  2. Can you formally guarantee your client that all the test systems that they provided will be returned to them in a full functioning and undamaged state?
  3. When I was inspecting the green amplifier module, I looked into the pins that were varying to check if these were digital buses or not. Look at the signal from the oscilloscope for these pins and at the signal for actual digital buses for the blue FR module. Do you have any idea why an oscillating signal such as a digital bus can be read as a floating-point value by your multimeter?
  4. Using a chip vendor website, have a look at the 74HC14 and...