The Hardware Hacking Handbook - Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks

The Hardware Hacking Handbook takes you deep inside embedded devices to show how different kinds of attacks work, then guides you through each hack on real hardware.

Embedded devices are chip-size microcomputers small enough to be included in the structure of the object they control, and they re everywhere in phones, cars, credit cards, laptops, medical equipment, even critical infrastructure. This means understanding their security is critical. The Hardware Hacking Handbook takes you deep inside different types of embedded systems, revealing the designs, components, security limits, and reverse-engineering challenges you need to know for executing effective hardware attacks.

Written with wit and infused with hands-on lab experiments, this handbook puts you in the role of an attacker interested in breaking security to do good. Starting with a crash course on the architecture of embedded devices, threat modeling, and attack trees, you ll go on to explore hardware inte rfaces, ports and communication protocols, electrical signaling, tips for analyzing firmware images, and more. Along the way, you ll use a home testing lab to perform fault-injection, side-channel (SCA), and simple and differential power analysis (SPA/DPA) attacks on a variety of real devices, such as a crypto wallet. The authors also share insights into real-life attacks on embedded systems, including Sony s PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, and Philips Hue lights, and provide an appendix of the equipment needed for your hardware hacking lab like a multimeter and an oscilloscope with options for every type of budget.

You ll learn:
How to model security threats, using attacker profiles, assets, objectives, and countermeasures
Electrical basics that will help you understand communication interfaces, signaling, and measurement
How to identify injection points for executing clock, voltage, electromagnetic, laser, and body-biasing fault attacks, as well as practical i njection tips
How to use timing and power analysis attacks to extract passwords and cryptographic keys
Techniques for leveling up both simple and differential power analysis, from practical measurement tips to filtering, processing, and visualization

Whether you re an industry engineer tasked with understanding these attacks, a student starting out in the field, or an electronics hobbyist curious about replicating existing work, The Hardware Hacking Handbook is an indispensable resource one you ll always want to have onhand.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Dental Hygiene: Introduction to Embedded Security
Chapter 2: Reaching Out, Touching Me, Touching You: Hardware Peripheral Interfaces
Chapter 3: Casing the Joint: Identifying Components and Gathering Information
Chapter 4: Bull in a China Shop: Introducing Fault Injection
Chapter 5: Don t Lick the Probe: How to Inject Faults
Chapter 6: Bench Time: Fault Injection Lab
Chapter 7: X Marks the Spot: EMFI Memory Dumping of Trezor
Chapter 8: I ve Got the Power: Introduction to Power Analysis
Chapter 9: Bench Time: Simple Power Analysis
Chapter 10: Splitting the Difference: Differential Power Analysis
Chapter 11: Advanced Power Analysis
Chapter 12: A DPA/SCA Lab: Breaking an AES-256 Bootloader
Chapter 13: No Kiddin : Real-Life Examples
Chapter 14: Think of the Children: Countermeasures, Certifications, and Goodbytes
Appendix A: Maxing Out Your Credit Card: Setting Up a Test Lab
Appendix B: All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Popular Pinouts