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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

Hardware hacking methodology


The following are the steps involved in a Hardware hacking methodology methodology:

  • Information gathering and recon
  • External and internal analysis of the device
  • Identifying communication interfaces
  • Acquiring data using hardware communication techniques
  • Software exploitation using hardware exploitation methods
  • Backdooring (optional)

Let's go into each of them, one by one, and understand each of these steps at a deeper level.

Information gathering and recon

The first step in an embedded device hacking methodology is to gather as much information as possible about the target that we are working with. Now this may sound simple, but in the cases of embedded devices, this might be a bit more complicated than we might think. The information about a target device is usually limited-at least from a very high-level view-given the fact that in order to gain a relevant amount of information about the device, we will need access to the physical device itself.

But even before doing...

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