The IoT Hacker's Handbook: A Practical Guide to Hacking the Internet of Things

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10. Exploiting ZigBee and BLE

Aditya Gupta¹ 

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Walnut, CA, USA

 

Now that we have a good enough familiarity with radio communications and SDR, it is time to look at some of the most commonly used radio communication protocols, ZigBee and BLE.

When you are pentesting any IoT device, chances are that the device will be using one of these protocols. In this chapter, we cover how both of these protocols work and how we can assess the security of the devices that use these communication protocols.

We start by first looking into ZigBee and its architecture, and then move into finer details such as identifying the channel on which a given ZigBee device operates, ...