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

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The power block

The power block's role is to power the different parts and subsystems within the system. It is of the utmost importance that the power section is approached by taking a lot of precautions and using protection. Some of the systems you will test will expose dangerous voltages or components. No test is important enough that you take the risk of maiming or killing yourself. Living to be able to do more tests and to get back to your family safe and sound is the most important part of your job as a hardware penetration tester.

The power block from a pentesting point of view

From a pentesting point of view, studying the power block will allow you to identify the different voltage levels used within the system. Do not assume that everything happens in one physical space; in modern systems, it is very common to have power rails distribute power across the system with higher voltage, more powerful electricity sources, and local regulation that is physically near the...