Hacking and Penetration Testing with Low Power Devices - Softcover

Polstra, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128007516 ISBN 13: 9780128007518

Publisher: Syngress, 2014

Synopsis

Hacking and Penetration Testing with Low Power Devices shows you how to perform penetration tests using small, low-powered devices that are easily hidden and may be battery-powered. It shows how to use an army of devices, costing less than you might spend on a laptop, from distances of a mile or more.

Hacking and Penetration Testing with Low Power Devices shows how to use devices running a version of The Deck, a full-featured penetration testing and forensics Linux distribution, and can run for days or weeks on batteries due to their low power consumption. Author Philip Polstra shows how to use various configurations, including a device the size of a deck of cards that can easily be attached to the back of a computer.

While each device running The Deck is a full-featured pen-testing platform, connecting systems together via 802.15.3 networking gives you even more power and flexibility. This reference teaches you how to construct and power these devices, install operating systems, and fill out your toolbox of small low-power devices with hundreds of tools and scripts from the book's companion website. Hacking and Pen Testing with Low Power Devices puts all these tools into your hands and will help keep you at the top of your game performing cutting-edge pen tests from anywhere in the world!

• Understand how to plan and execute an effective penetration test using an army of low-power devices
• Learn how to configure and use open-source tools and easy-to-construct low-power devices
• Leverage IEEE 802.15.4 networking to perform penetration tests from up to a mile away, or use 802.15.4 gateways to perform pen tests from anywhere in the world
• Access penetration testing operating systems with hundreds of tools and scripts on the book's companion web site

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Philip Polstra (known to his friends as Dr. Phil) is an internationally recognized hardware hacker. His work has been presented at numerous conferences around the globe including repeat performances at DEFCON, BlackHat, 44CON, GrrCON, MakerFaire, ForenSecure, and other top conferences. Dr. Polstra is a well-known expert on USB forensics and has published several articles on this topic.

Dr. Polstra has developed degree programs in digital forensics and ethical hacking while serving as a professor and Hacker in Residence at a private university in the Midwestern United States. He currently teaches computer science and digital forensics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. In addition to teaching, he provides training and performs penetration tests on a consulting basis. When not working, he has been known to fly, build aircraft, and tinker with electronics. His latest happenings can be found on his blog: http://polstra.org. You can also follow him at @ppolstra on Twitter.

From the Back Cover

A practical guide to performing penetration tests from a distance with low-cost battery-powered devices

Hacking and Penetration Testing with Low Power Devices shows you how to perform penetration tests using small, low-powered devices that are easily hidden and may be battery powered. It shows how to use an army of devices from distances of a mile or more while spending less on your devices than someone might spend on a laptop.

From the Inside Flap

Foreword

So I will start out this foreword by warning you dear reader of the power you now

hold in your hands! This book does not only educate but also create a defining

moment on how business, organization, and people will from now on look at their

network security. For too long we have led ourselves to believe that the dangers

of our online interactions were limited and shielded because of the need for an Inter-

net connection or an IP address. Well, no more! The author has brought to light the

grim truth that without physical security you have no online security. He shows how

everyday gadgets, gizmos, and computer accessories that we take for granted can be

used to penetrate our networks. He shows that the sky is now literally no longer the

limit. By showing how devices ready to attack your network can even fly to their

target! These devices are not from the future; they are not even from DARPA!

He will walk you through how you too can create these cyber-weapons using

low-cost parts and this book. The golden age of cyberwar has long since passed

where only nation states had this power. Thanks to the author's diligent efforts,

he has brought this kind of know-how and technology to the masses! This book

should be given to every CIO, CEO, CFO (well, any person who has a title that starts

with "C"), so that they can realize the threats that are out there! I've said, "I don't

have to bypass your firewall if I can bypass your receptionist." Well, the author does

an excellent job showing in graphic detail just how easy that has become. This is not a

book for those who are afraid to look into the void (or into their current information

security policies and procedures)! This is a book for those who dare to ask, "Why

does that power plug have an Ethernet cable attached to it?" and who are never afraid

to ask, "I wonder what this does?" This is not a "light reading on a rainy Sunday

afternoon" book. This is a "break out the soldering iron, my laptop, and a box of band

aids" book! Go forth, reader, and learn of the wonders of weaponizing your mouse,

making a toy robot more terrifying than the Terminator, and how sometimes seeing a

blue police box should fill you with dread!

I'm serious, this is a great book and I've learned some really great things from it.

Enjoy!

Jayson E. Street

June 2014

Edition details

• Publisher: Syngress
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128007516
• ISBN 13: 9780128007518
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260