The Hardware Hacking Handbook: Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks, (Paperback)

Looking to explore the world of hardware hacking and break embedded security with hardware attacks? Look no further than The Hardware Hacking Handbook. This paperback guide takes you deep inside the world of embedded devices – those tiny microcomputers hidden inside just about everything, from phones and credit cards to cars and critical infrastructure – to reveal their secrets and vulnerabilities. Whether you’re an industry engineer, a student, or just a curious hobbyist, The Hardware Hacking Handbook is the must-have resource for understanding hardware hacking. Starting with a crash course on embedded device architecture, threat modeling, and attack trees, this guide explores hardware interfaces, communication protocols, and electrical signaling, providing tips for analyzing firmware images and much more.

Hands-on lab experiments put you in the role of an attacker, allowing you to practice fault-injection, side-channel attacks, and simple and differential power analysis on a wide range of real devices, including a crypto wallet. Throughout the guide, the authors share insights into real-life attacks on embedded systems, including the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, as well as Philips Hue lights. An appendix includes a list of equipment needed for your own hardware hacking lab, with options for every type of budget. You’ll learn how to model security threats, identify injection points for different types of attacks, and use timing and power analysis to extract passwords and cryptographic keys.

With tips and techniques for hardware pentesting, hardware reverse engineering, firmware and device security analysis, hardware cryptography, and hardware forensics, The Hardware Hacking Handbook is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in breaking embedded security with hardware attacks.