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Course Overview

Nowadays almost, every device has Internet access. IoT promises to bring supply chain efficiency, decreased maintenance downtime, home conveniences, and much more. There’s a lot of power being bestowed upon these little guys. And with great power… comes great vulnerabilities. Every IoT device no matter large or small it is, needs an operating environment. In the IoT world of embedded systems, that’s called firmware. But what is it, how do we hack it and what are the impacts for your home, in your organization and on your careers? We’re very excited to bring you a mini-course of its kind that will take you into a unique journey of extracting, reversing and exploiting the Firmware of the Internet of Things. This course is ideal for penetration testers, security enthusiasts and network administrators.

This course starts with the very basics. First, you will learn how to install the tools, some terminology. Then the show will start and you will learn everything with hands-on practice. Free and popular tools are used you don’t need to buy any tool or software.

The word hacking in the course implies performing Ethical penetration testing against your own devices or the devices that you already obtained written permission from their administrators or owners.

What You Will Learn

  • Introduction to Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Install AttifyOS the de-facto operating system for Internet of Things penetration testing
  • Learn how to extract and explore IoT firmware
  • Learn how to find vulnerabilities in a specific IoT firmware
  • Learn how to practically backdoor a specific IoT firmware
  • Learn how to manually detect backdoors in IoT firmware
  • Learn how to perform dictionary attack against IoT control panel login forms
  • Learn how to emulate Firmware devices without the need to purchase or brick an IoT device

Program Curriculum

  • Setting Up Your Environment
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council

  • Introduction to Internet of Things
  • Internet of Things Search Engines
  • What is a Firmware? and How to Get One?
  • Extracting & Exploring IoT Firmware
  • Case Study 1 - Finding Vulnerabilities in IoT Firmware
  • Cracking IoT Passwords using Hashcat
  • Emulating an IoT Firmware using Firmadyne Emulator
  • Case Study 2 - Finding a Remote Code Execution in IoT Firmware
  • Working with Shellcodes
  • Case Study 3 - Backdooring IoT Devices
  • Case Study 4 - Bypassing IoT Control Panel Login Form
  • Case Study 5 - Network Backdoor Detection
  • Wrapping Up
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

Instructor

Haitham Alani

Dr. Haitham Alani, received a B.Sc. degree in Software Engineering from Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, in 2009. He went on to obtain his M.Sc. from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in Information, Computer, and Network Security in 2012. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from University Technology Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in 2017, in Computer Science. He joined the Department of Computer Engineering at Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan in September 2018. He served as Assistant Professor from 2018. He is a certified ethical hacker, certified network defender, and Certified academic instructor from EC-Council. He has participated in organizing and delivering different information security courses to members of the Jordanian army. His current research interests include Penetration Testing, Reverse Engineering, Network Forensics, Wireless Security, and Cyber Criminology. Dr. Haitham has taught many courses of the curriculum since its establishment however, he is currently responsible for teaching courses in the area of Network and Information Security.

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