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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

Preface

This book focuses on hardware security.

It will teach you how hardware systems are architected and how to understand the general architecture of a system. You will also learn where to find information about a system, which may exist in unexpected places.

We will examine the basic protocols that electronic devices use, look at how to attack the protocols, and learn how to leverage these attacks against the device as a whole.

You will learn how to identify the scenarios that matter for impacting the way a system works, how to test for them during a hardware assessment, and how to reach a system's 'crown jewels'.

In this book, we will teach you how to leverage attacks against hardware, with very cheap tools, to reach the software that runs on the device. You will learn how to extract and analyze this software, and how to alter the software's behavior through direct hardware/software interaction.