About the Book

This book offers hands-on exercises (via Virtual Machine) and technical information to uncover and fix vulnerabilities caused by misconfiguration or specific corner cases in U-Boot deployments. It includes an introduction to the bootloaders in Embedded Systems and several real-world attacks along with recommendations.

The book is available on all the amazon marketplaces, below are just 3 links:

About Me

I have completed hundreds of projects involving reverse engineering, code review, embedded systems, and software penetration testing. I apply these skills to work in the automotive, smart grid, SATCOM, and other industries. I have also presented a considerable amount of original cybersecurity research at major conferences

Below some of my latest research:

Applying Fault Injection to the Firmware Update Process of a Drone  – https://labs.ioactive.com/2023/06/applying-fault-injection-to-firmware.html

Owning a Bitcoin ATM: https://ioactive.com/owning-a-bitcoin-atm/

Book Resources

If you want to get access to the book resources such as the Virtual Machine used for the exercises click below: