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Course Overview

In the modern world of cybersecurity, hardware is often an overlooked attack surface, yet it forms the foundation of nearly every digital system. Practical Hardware Pentesting introduces learners to the critical and increasingly relevant discipline of hardware security. Understanding how hardware components interact, how data flows through physical circuits, and where vulnerabilities may lie is essential for ethical hackers, red teamers, and security professionals alike. This course equips learners with the hands-on knowledge required to discover, analyze, and exploit weaknesses in hardware systems, bridging the gap between digital security and the physical realm. This course begins with a foundational overview of hardware security, including component identification and electronic logic. Learners then explore attacks on hardware protocols such as UART, SPI, and JTAG, gaining insight into how these interfaces can be compromised. The course continues by guiding students through building a cost-effective hardware lab and essential techniques like soldering. Students learn to extract data from onboard storage, delve into Wi-Fi attacks from a hardware angle, and examine cryptographic implementations and vulnerabilities. Finally, the course wraps up with forensic analysis techniques, focusing on RAM and disk-based evidence recovery. By the end, learners will confidently analyze hardware systems, exploit real-world vulnerabilities, and perform forensic tasks for investigative purposes.

What You Will Learn

  • An advanced practical skillset to defeat hardware security measures and exploit physical vulnerabilities.
  • The most useful and foundational concepts to understand every hardware attack.
  • How to identify weak spots in any kind of hardware device or protocol.
  • The very latest state-of-the-art hardware hacking technologies , like Fault Injection.
  • How to integrate hardware security with software security
  • A mindset to continue learning hardcore advanced techniques and adapt to the hardware security market.
  • How to implement and develop hardware equipment for pentesting and red team tasks.

Program Curriculum

  • Introduction
  • Basic Electronic Components
  • Analog Logic vs. Digital Logic vs. CPUs
  • Buses
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Serial Protocols : SPI / I2C / UART / RS485
  • JTAG and SWD
  • Hacking High Speed Buses
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Elemental Equipment for Your Laboratory
  • Soldering: Crash Course
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Onboard SPI Memories
  • NAND Memories and SD Card Protocol
  • Commercial Tools for Memory Dumping
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Understanding the Base of Wi-Fi Communications
  • Wi-Fi Standards and Their Usefulness in Wi-Fi Antennas
  • Understanding Packet Types to Understand Possible Attacks
  • Hardware Devices for Pentesting and Red Team Equipment
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Asymmetric and Symmetric Ciphers
  • Main Symmetric Ciphering Algorithms (XOR and AES)
  • Implementations in Hardware
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Analyzing Hard Disks: SSD and HDD
  • Analyzing RAM
  • Chapter 7 Quiz
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Instructor

Daniel García Baameiro & Pedro Javier Fernández

Daniel García Baameiro is a computer engineer who started his steps when he was in high school. When he arrived at the university and saw that there were no cybersecurity subjects, he decided to set up an association, a hacking group, and two cybersecurity events in collaboration with other members. He currently works as a member of a red team and specializes in offensive cybersecurity. He has been a speaker at several cybersecurity events and loves to share everything he learns. Likewise, he has certifications such as OSCP. Pedro Javier Fernández is an embedded software engineer and hardware hacking enthusiast since he was a teenager. His interest sparkled by hacking the hardware of Nintendo consoles and video games, as well as routers and other devices found in his house. Later, he turned that passion into a career-making embedded device more secure and researching hardware attacks on modern microcontrollers. Pedro loves giving talks and has taught hundreds of students at universities about hardware security as well as free software. In his free time, he enjoys writing a personal blog about technology and will make sure to help everyone in the learning process.

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