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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

Preventing injection attacks


Injection attacks are one of the top vulnerabilities in any web application but especially in IoT systems. In fact, injection has been rated in the top 2 of the OWASP Top 10 since 2010. There are many types of injection attacks such as operating system (OS) command injection, cross-site scripting (for example, JavaScript injection), SQL injection, log injection, as well as others such as expression language injection. In IoT and embedded systems, the most common types of injection attacks are OS command injection; when an application accepts an untrusted user input and passes that value to perform a shell command without input validation or proper escaping and cross-site scripting (XSS). This recipe will show you how to mitigate command injection attacks by ensuring all untrusted data and user input is validated, sanitized, and alternative safe functions are used.

How to do it...

Command injection vulnerabilities are not difficult to test for statics and dynamics...

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