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IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify vulnerabilities and secure your smart devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280571
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aaron Guzman Aaron Guzman
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. IoT Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. IoT Threat Modeling 3. Analyzing and Exploiting Firmware 4. Exploitation of Embedded Web Applications 5. Exploiting IoT Mobile Applications 6. IoT Device Hacking 7. Radio Hacking 8. Firmware Security Best Practices 9. Mobile Security Best Practices 10. Securing Hardware 11. Advanced IoT Exploitation and Security Automation

Securing third-party code and components


As with all software, mobile applications heavily use third-party libraries and wrappers to perform a function such as making HTTP requests or encrypting objects. These libraries can also introduce weaknesses into an application and expose confidential information or affect the integrity of the application itself. With this in mind, third-party code should be reviewed for vulnerabilities, updated, and tested where applicable. This is especially true for hybrid applications that depend on third-party hybrid frameworks and libraries to send, receive, and save data. This recipe will discuss methods to ensure third-party code does not introduce vulnerabilities into IoT applications.

How to do it...

In Chapter 8,Firmware Security Best Practices, methods to scan JavaScript libraries with NSP as well as Retire.js were discussed, these can still be applied to mobile applications. To ensure third-party code does not introduce security holes into mobile applications...

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