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Practical Hardware Pentesting

You're reading from Practical Hardware Pentesting A guide to attacking embedded systems and protecting them against the most common hardware attacks

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789619133

Length 382 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Embedded Systems

Concepts

Embedded Systems

Author (1):

Jean-Georges Valle

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting to Know the Hardware

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Pentesting Lab and Ensuring Lab Safety FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Your Target

4. Chapter 3: Identifying the Components of Your Target

5. Chapter 4: Approaching and Planning the Test

6. Section 2: Attacking the Hardware

7. Chapter 5: Our Main Attack Platform

8. Chapter 6: Sniffing and Attacking the Most Common Protocols

9. Chapter 7: Extracting and Manipulating Onboard Storage

10. Chapter 8: Attacking Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and BLE

11. Chapter 9: Software-Defined Radio Attacks

12. Section 3: Attacking the Software

13. Chapter 10: Accessing the Debug Interfaces

14. Chapter 11: Static Reverse Engineering and Analysis

15. Chapter 12: Dynamic Reverse Engineering

16. Chapter 13: Scoring and Reporting Your Vulnerabilities

17. Chapter 14: Wrapping It Up – Mitigations and Good Practices

18. Assessments

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Further reading

Read more about the C language:

The seminal C book: The C Programming Language, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie; ISBN 978-0131103627
21st Century C, by Ben Klemens; ISBN 978-1449327149, because just because the language is 40 years old, doesn't mean you have to write it like it was 40 years ago

Read more about GNU Make:

Managing Projects with GNU Make, by Robert Mecklenburg, Andy Oram, and Steve Talbott; ISBN 978-0596006105

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Authors (1)

Jean-Georges Valle

Jean-Georges Valle

Jean-Georges Valle is a hardware penetration tester based in Belgium. His background was in software security, with hardware being a hobby, and he then started to look into the security aspects of hardware. He has spent the last decade testing various systems, from industrial logic controllers to city-scale IoT, and from media distribution to power metering. He has learned to attack embedded systems and to leverage them against cloudscale infrastructure. He is the lead hardware technical expert in an offensive security team for a leader company in the security and incident response sector. Jean-Georges holds a master's degree in information security and focuses on security at the point of intersection with hardware and software, hardware and software interaction, exploit development in embedded systems, and open source hardware.

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