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Best Hardware books
4 books in our catalog cover Hardware, ranked by rating. Each entry is an opinionated review with who the book is for and who should skip it.
01 · 2021
The Hardware Hacking Handbook
Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks
Jasper van Woudenberg and Colin O'Flynn (NewAE / ChipWhisperer) on real hardware attacks: bus sniffing, fault injection, side-channel power analysis, and the lab work that turns a black box into a known target.
Advanced5/5Jasper van Woudenberg, Colin O'Flynn02 · 2026
The Spacecraft Hacker's Handbook
Exploiting Ground Stations, Flight Software, and Satellite Terminals
A hands-on tour of the full attack surface of a modern space system, from the ground stations that send commands to the flight software on the spacecraft and the satellite terminals that consume the signal.
Advanced4/5Andrzej Olchawa, Milenko Starcik03 · 2021
Practical IoT Hacking
The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things
Five-author guide to IoT pentesting covering hardware probing, radio (BLE / Zigbee / LoRa), embedded firmware, and the protocols that connect cheap devices to vulnerable backends.
Intermediate4/5Fotios Chantzis, Ioannis Stais, Paulino Calderon, Evangelos Deirmentzoglou, Beau Woods04 · 2003
Hacking the Xbox
An Introduction to Reverse Engineering
Andrew "bunnie" Huang on the original Xbox: hardware modding as the entry path into reverse engineering, plus a frank account of the legal fight that followed.
Intermediate4/5Andrew "bunnie" Huang