Beginner's Guide to IoT and Hardware Hacking

Beginner’s Guide to IoT and Hardware Hacking
Instructor: Andrew Bellini

Learn to perform security research and testing on IoT devices and hardware.

Course Overview

Prerequisites & System Requirements

A general understanding of penetration testing methods and methodology and a general understanding of Linux are strongly recommended.
A computing environment (Windows, Linux, or Mac*) capable of running a virtual machine with at least 8GB of RAM and 40GB of disk space. *Note that new MacBook Pros with the M1 chip are unable to run virtual machines such as the ones demonstrated in this course.
If you want to follow along with all the hands-on portions of the course, you’ll need to purchase the physical equipment and tools used in the course; you can find a full list in the second lesson of the course which is available for preview. Note that some hands-on portions of the course can be completed without physical hardware.

Topics Covered:

Electrical engineering and electronics fundamentals
Understanding and identifying common electronic components
How to use common hardware hacking tools such as digital multimeters, logic analyzers, USB to serial adapters, and flash programmers
An optional lesson on soldering
Performing OSINT and recon on hardware
How to read and interpret datasheets
Initiating and using a serial shell
Firmware extraction methods
Firmware analysis and reverse engineering