Index

Note: Page numbers followed by f indicate figures and t indicate tables.

A

Aerial hacking drone 

quadcopters 224

I2C 234

IMU 234

Phantom 233

vs. QuadShot 234

SPI 234

QuadShot 

advantages 224

Alfa adapter 228, 228f

BeagleBone installation 227–228, 227f

Cappuccino 224–225, 225f

disadvantages 227

Latte 224–225

LIA controller board 228, 229

Mocha 224–225, 225f

power conservation 230–233

vs. quadcopters 234

router-only operation 229–230

Xbee adapter and cape 229, 229f

Xbee serial interface board 226–227, 226f

selection factors 223, 224

Aircrack-ng 195, 196f

Alfa wireless adapter 7–8, 95

American wire gauge (AWG) 98, 98t

Analogue to digital converters (ADCs) 20–21

Arch Linux 34–35, 34t, 35f

Army secret 

drones installation 

equipment removal 222

initial hiding 220–221

maintenance 222

wired drone 216, 219f

wireless battery-powered drone 216, 219f

wireless USB-powered drone 216, 220f

hacking drones hiding 

artificial plants 209–211

audio visual control panel 209–211, 212f

building roofs 207, 208f

Buzz Lightyear 216, 218f

car drone 208, 209f

Dalek Desk Defender toy 214, 216f, 217f

desks 208–209, 210f

drop ceilings 209, 211f

fake nest 206–207, 207f

floor panel 209–211, 212f

hand sanitizer dispenser 209–211, 214f

haxtar 216, 219f

network printer 209–211, 213f

phone stand 209–211, 213f

plants 209–211, 215f

rocks 207

snow-covered bush 206–207, 206f

storage closets 209

table 209–211, 215f

TARDIS toy 214, 217f

wall-mounted televisions 209–211

Attack planning 191–192

ATMega328P microcontroller 237

AWG  See American wire gauge (AWG)

B

Basic service set identification (BSSID) 108

Battery power 

Duracell batteries 99–100, 101, 101t

NiMH batteries 101, 101t

power supply 

heat sink 99, 100f

prototyping board 99, 100f

7805 voltage regulator 99, 99f

TO-220 package 99

BeagleBoard.org Foundation 2

Beagle-Board Web site 2–3

BeagleBoard-xM 7, 7f

above view 14, 15f

vs. BeagleBone Black 26, 26t

below view 14, 15f

custom-etched enclosure 17, 17f

DB9 RS-232 serial port 17

DM3730 processor 14

DVI-D connection 16

HDMI connector 16

integrated Fast Ethernet port 17

JTAG connector 17

LCD screen 16

LEDs 16–17

microSD card slot 16

NEON SIMD coprocessor 14

package on package design 14

S-Video connection 16

TPS65950 chip 16

USB 2.0 host ports 16

Windows CE 27–28

BeagleBone 

ADCs 20–21

advantage 20

Arduino-type board 18

vs. BeagleBoard-xM 26, 26t

vs. BeagleBone Black 26, 26t

CAN buses 20

capes 18

Cortex-A8 processor 19

EEPROM 19, 21

Ethernet port 18, 18f, 19f

microSD socket 20

PWM 20–21

serial ports 20

SPI and I2C 20

System Reference Manual 19

Texas Instruments TPS65127B 19

USB 20

BeagleBone Black 7f, 8

above view 21, 22f

vs. BeagleBoard-xM 26, 26t

vs. BeagleBone 26, 26t

below view 21, 22f

DDR3 memory 21–23

eMMC nonvolatile storage 23–24

enclosure or embedding 24

HDMI video 24

lunchbox edition 105

microHDMI connector 24

operating system  See (Operating system)

power consumption 103

power requirements 95

purchasing capes 24

Special Computing case 24, 25f

Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) 28–29

Buildroot 37, 38t

Buzz Lightyear lunchbox 7, 7f

C

Cape(s) 

BeagleBone 2, 18, 129–141

contemplations 236

LCD 4 125, 126f

XBee full-cape 

double-sided circuit board 139, 140f

pin descriptors 136, 137t

single-sided circuit board 139–141, 141f

XBee mini-cape 

device trees 134

GPIO pins 134, 135

Configuring devices 192–193, 192t

Cracking wireless network 195, 195f

D

Dalek 193, 202–203

Debian packages 

Linux 39–41, 40t

todo-packages.txt file 65–67

Deck 235

devices running 2–3, 3f

HID 235

packages 2

penetration testing tools 

aircrack-ng 3, 4f

airodump-ng utility 3, 4f

cracking user passwords 6

dropbox 8–9

Fern Wireless Cracker 5, 5f

graphical user interface desktop system 7–8, 7f

hacking drone 9–11, 10f

Hydra online password cracker 6f

Metasploit 5, 6f

Nikto 6f

Nmap 5, 6f

Python libraries 6

Scapy Python tool 5

Wireshark 5, 6f

ports 236–237

power 

active user 116–117, 116f

battery power  See (Battery power)

consumption  See (Power consumption)

payload 115

power sources 96–102

requirements 94–96

solar power 102, 102t

USB power 97–98, 98t

wall power 97

Digital Video Interface-Digital (DVI-D) protocol 123–124

Display Data Channel (DDC2B) 16

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) 110

E

Eclipse 

existing makefiles 

build configuration 71–73, 73f

compiler paths 73–74, 74f

creation 71, 72f

importing 71–73, 72f

library paths 74, 75f

new projects 74

remote debugging 

configuration 77–79, 83f

default SSH user 77, 82f

IP address 75–76

Linux connection 77, 78f, 79f

mobile and device development 75, 76f

open perspective window 77, 77f

Remote System Explorer 77, 78f

SSH process 77, 80f, 81f, 82f

website 71

Electronic display identification data (EDID) 124

Enabling encryption 

Series 2 coordinator 187–188, 189f

Series 2 router 187–188, 188f

Series 1 XBee modems 187, 187f

End-user license agreements (EULA) 13

Enhanced Display ID (EDID) 16

Erlang programming language 37

F

Fedora project 38–39, 39t

Fern Wireless Cracker 5, 5f

FreeBSD 28–29, 30f

FreeRADIUS 87

FTP log-ins 201, 201f

Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) 237

G

General-purpose input/output (GPIO) lines 236

Gentoo Linux 35–36, 36t

H

Human interface device (HID) 235

Hydra online password cracker 6f

I

IEEE 802.15.4 networking 

Digi International 156

gateways 189–190

mesh networking 158–159

point-to-multipoint networking 156–158

routers 188–189

Series 1 modem configuration 161–162, 163f

Series 2 modem configuration 

battery-powered drones 166, 167f

default configuration 163, 164f

reconfigured 163, 165f

router 165, 166f

update firmware 163, 164f

X-CTU  See (X-CTU modem configuration)

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) 234

Input and output devices 

BeagleBoard-xM 123–124

BeagleBone Black 123–124

BeagleBone capes 

open-drain lines 130

SCL 130

SDA 130

XBee  See (XBee, full-cape See also XBee, mini-cape)

IEEE 802.11 wireless 126–127, 127f

IEEE 802.15.4 wireless 128–129, 129f

keyboards 126

LCD3 126

LCD4 125, 126f

LCD7 124, 125, 125f

mouse 126

network hubs and switches 129, 130f

Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) 234, 236

L

Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) 55–56

Linux 

Angström distribution 31–42, 32t, 34f

Arch Linux 34–35, 34t, 35f

Buildroot 37, 38t

Debian 39–41, 40t

definition 31, 32–33

Fedora 38–39, 39t

Gentoo 35–36, 36t

Nerves project 37, 38t

Sabayon 37, 37t

Ubuntu 41–42, 41t

Log-in credentials 120

Lunchbox pentest system 105, 106f

J 

JSON format 149–150

M

Mesh networking 158–159

Metasploit 90–92, 200–201, 200f

payload 115

show options command 115

Metasploit console 114, 114f, 153

show options command 115

Meterpreter shell 115, 115f, 116f

MicroSD card 45–46

N

Nerves project 37, 38t

NETGEAR router 199

Network Address Table (NAT) 165–166

Nikto 120–121

Nmap 5, 6f

O

Online password cracker 197–198

Open hardware 13

Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) 

client 112, 112f

PFE network 112, 113f

scan assistant 112, 113f

SSH server 117

Operating system 

Linux 

Angström distribution 31–42, 32t, 34f

Arch Linux 34–35, 34t, 35f

Buildroot 37, 38t

Debian 39–41, 40t

definition 31, 32–33

Fedora 38–39, 39t

Gentoo 35–36, 36t

Nerves project 37, 38t

Sabayon 37, 37t

Ubuntu 41–42, 41t

microSD card 45–46

non-Linux options 

Android 29–31, 31f

FreeBSD 28–29, 30f

QNX RTOS 28, 29f

StarterWare 29

Windows CE 27–28, 28f

penetration testing Linux distribution 42–43

Ubuntu options 

ARM platform 44

BeagleBone Black 43–44

device trees 45

variants 44

P

Password cracking 88–89

Payload 115

Personal area networks (PAN) 155

Point-to-multipoint networking 156–158

Power consumption 

LED control 104

microSD card 103–104

USB device power 103, 103f, 104f

Pulse width modulation (PWM) 20–21

Pyrit 147, 147f, 148, 148f

Python method 

asynchronous mode 169

GitHub site 183–184

MeshDeckClient class 179

MeshDeckServer class 178, 178f

Series 1 and Series 2 XBee modems 170–178

start, stop/restart command 179–183

sudo update-rc.d meshdeckd defaults command 183

XBee module 168–169

Q

Quadcopters 224

I2C 234

IMU 234

Phantom 233

vs. QuadShot 234

SPI 234

QuadShot 

advantages 224

Alfa adapter 228, 228f

BeagleBone installation 227–228, 227f

Cappuccino 224–225, 225f

disadvantages 227

Latte 224–225

LIA controller board 228, 229

Mocha 224–225, 225f

power conservation 230–233

vs. quadcopters 234

router-only operation 229–230

Xbee adapter and cape 229, 229f

Xbee serial interface board 226–227, 226f

R

Radiofrequency identification (RFID) reader 7–8

Real Time Operating System (RTOS) 28

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 38–39

Regular expression 68–69

Running Nmap 111, 111f

Ruby Version Manager (RVM) 86

S

Sabayon Linux 37, 37t

Saving power 184–186

Scapy Python tool 5, 142–148

Serial clock line (SCL) 130

Serial data line (SDA) 130

Serial peripheral interface (SPI) 234, 236

Server message block (SMB) protocol 114

Simple Login Manager (SLiM) 60

Single remote drone 

handler function 144

JSON format 149–150

Metasploit console 153

OpenVAS 150–153

pyrit 147, 147f, 148, 148f

Python modules 142

Python scripts 143–144

wireless networks detection 144, 144f

wireless packets capturing 146, 147f

SMB  See Server message block (SMB)

Solar power 102, 102t

StarterWare 29

T

Texas Instruments (TI) devices 

BeagleBoard.org Foundation 14

BeagleBoard-xM  See (BeagleBoard-xM)

BeagleBone  See (BeagleBone)

BeagleBone Black  See (BeagleBone Black)

Toolbox 

build automation 79–85

Christmas list 63, 64–65

cross compilation 

definition 70

Eclipse  See (Eclipse)

toolchain installation 70–71

Debian packages 

regular expression 68–69

todo-packages.txt file 65–67

translate command 67–68

desired packages 60

graphical environment 

Awk command 57

check_dpkg function 58

grep command 57, 58

LXDE 55–56

pound-bang 56

shell variables 56–57

sudo apt-get update command 57

if statement 59

logical OR 59

Metasploit 90–92

native compilation 70

password cracking 88–89

piping and redirection 57

Python tools 85–86, 90

repository 62–65

RVM tool 86

scanners 89

SLiM 60

todo-packages.txt file 63–64

unset deb_pkgs 59

wireless cracking 86–88

xorg.conf file 61

Translate command 67–68

U

Ubuntu 41–42, 41t

ARM platform 44

BeagleBone Black 43–44

device trees 45

user 119, 120f

variants 44

USB power 97–98, 98t

W

Wi-Fi scanning script 193, 194f

Wireless cracking 86–88

Wireless monitoring interface 106, 106f

Wireless network sniffing 107, 107f

Wireshark 5, 6f

WPA2 handshake 108–109, 109f

WPA2-protected networks 107, 108f

wpas.conf file 197

wpa_supplicant configuration file 195–197

X

XBee 

full-cape 

double-sided circuit board 139, 140f

pin descriptors 136, 137t

single-sided circuit board 139–141, 141f

IEEE 802.15.4 networking 128–129, 156

mini-cape 

device trees 134

GPIO pins 134, 135

point-to-multipoint networking 156–158

Python module 170–178

QuadShot 226–227

radios 166–168

router 229

saving power 184–186

X-CTU modem configuration 

Mac OSX version 159–160

moltosenso Network Manager IRON 160

Series 1 modem 161–162, 163f

Series 2 modem 

Windows version 159–160, 160f

XBee modem discovering 160–161, 161f

X2E-Z3C-W1-A penetration test 189, 190

Z

ZigBee networking 158, 165–166, 187–188

ZuniDigital ZS105G 5-port switch 129, 130f