Practical Hardware Pentesting: A guide to attacking embedded systems and protecting them against the most common hardware attacks

Explore embedded systems pentesting by applying the most common attack techniques and patterns

Key Features:

• Learn various pentesting tools and techniques to attack and secure your hardware infrastructure
• Find the glitches in your hardware that can be a possible entry point for attacks
• Discover best practices for securely designing products

Book Description:

Hardware pentesting involves leveraging hardware interfaces and communication channels to find vulnerabilities in a device. Practical Hardware Pentesting will help you to plan attacks, hack your embedded devices, and secure the hardware infrastructure.

Throughout the book, you will see how a specific device works, explore the functional and security aspects, and learn how a system senses and communicates with the outside world. You will start by setting up your lab from scratch and then gradually work with an advanced hardware lab. The book will help you get to grips with the global architecture of an embedded system and sniff on-board traffic. You will also learn how to identify and formalize threats to the embedded system and understand its relationship with its ecosystem. Later, you will discover how to analyze your hardware and locate its possible system vulnerabilities before going on to explore firmware dumping, analysis, and exploitation. Finally, focusing on the reverse engineering process from an attacker point of view will allow you to understand how devices are attacked, how they are compromised, and how you can harden a device against the most common hardware attack vectors.

By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with security best practices and understand how they can be implemented to secure your hardware.

What You Will Learn:

• Perform an embedded system test and identify security critical functionalities
• Locate critical security components and buses and learn how to attack them Discover how to dump and modify stored information
• Understand and exploit the relationship between the firmware and hardware
• Identify and attack the security functions supported by the functional blocks of the device
• Develop an attack lab to support advanced device analysis and attacks

Who this book is for:

This book is for security professionals and researchers who want to get started with hardware security assessment but don't know where to start. Electrical engineers who want to understand how their devices can be attacked and how to protect against these attacks will also find this book useful.

探索嵌入式系統滲透測試，應用最常見的攻擊技巧和模式

主要特點：
- 學習各種滲透測試工具和技術，以攻擊和保護硬體基礎設施
- 找出可能成為攻擊入口的硬體漏洞
- 發現安全設計產品的最佳實踐

書籍描述：
硬體滲透測試涉及利用硬體接口和通信通道來尋找設備中的漏洞。《實用硬體滲透測試》將幫助您計劃攻擊、入侵嵌入式設備並保護硬體基礎設施。

在整本書中，您將了解特定設備的工作原理，探索其功能和安全方面，並學習系統如何感知和與外界通信。您將從頭開始建立您的實驗室，逐步進入高級硬體實驗室。本書將幫助您熟悉嵌入式系統的整體架構並嗅探板上的流量。您還將學習如何識別和形式化對嵌入式系統的威脅，並了解其與生態系統的關係。隨後，您將發現如何分析硬體並找到可能的系統漏洞，然後探索固件的轉儲、分析和利用。最後，著重於從攻擊者的角度進行逆向工程過程，讓您了解設備如何受到攻擊、被破壞以及如何對抗最常見的硬體攻擊向量。

通過閱讀本書，您將熟悉安全最佳實踐並了解如何實施這些實踐以保護您的硬體。

學到什麼：
- 執行嵌入式系統測試，識別安全關鍵功能
- 找到關鍵的安全組件和匯流排，並學習如何攻擊它們
- 了解並利用固件和硬體之間的關係
- 識別並攻擊設備的功能塊支持的安全功能
- 建立一個攻擊實驗室，以支持高級設備分析和攻擊

本書適合對硬體安全評估有興趣但不知從何處開始的安全專業人員和研究人員。希望了解他們的設備如何受到攻擊以及如何防範這些攻擊的電氣工程師也會發現本書有用。