Practical Internet of Things Hacking - 2025 (Udemy.com)
Conducting Reverse Engineering on Internet of Things Firmware for Fun and Profit
Created by: Haitham Alani
Last updated June 2025
What you will learn
- Introduction to Internet of things
- Internet of Things attack vectors
- Setting up the pentesting enviroment
- How to reverse engineer the IoT device firmware
- How to find vulnerabilities in IoT device firmware
- How do hackers backdoor the IoT devices to spy on its users
- How to emulate IoT firmware using virutal emulator
How it compares
Against the other 295 rated Udemy courses in Arduino on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 36% of them
- Reviews129#170 of 296 by number of reviews
- Length2.4 hoursshorter than 75% of them
- Last updatedJune 2025more recently than 65% of them
Course Description
Welcome to Practical Internet of Things Hacking - 2021
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 takes you into a unique journey of extracting, reversing and exploiting the Firmware of Internet of Things. This course is ideal for penetration testers, security enthusiasts and network administrators.
The following materials will be covered in this course:
Introduction to Internet of Things (IoT).
Installing 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.
No prior knowledge is needed!
It doesn't need any prior knowledge to learn IoT hacking however, a basic Linux skills will be like putting a cherry on the top of the cake :)
This course starts with 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 practices.
Free and popular tools are used you don’t need to buy any tool or software.
You'll also get:
Lifetime Access to The Course.
Fast & Friendly Support in the Q&A section.
Udemy Certificate of Completion Ready for Download.
24/7 support, so if you have any questions you can post them in the Q&A section or DM me and I will make sure to get back to you ASAP.
Very Important Note:
The word hacking in the course implies performing Ethical penetration testing against your own devices or the devices that you already obtained a written permission from their administrators or owners.
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
129 Reviews
Haitham Alani
Dr. Haitham Alani, received the BSc. degree in Software Engineering from Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, in 2009. He went on to obtain his MSc. from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in Information, Computer and Network Security in 2012. He obtained his PhD 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 to 2025 and currently serving as Associate Professor. 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 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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Reviews
By Mark Jonas on 7/24/2024
The course contains some imprecision but, overall, provides you exactly what it promises, a hands-on of the main important techniques to interact with the firmware as well as the most basics vulnerabilities. It is a good practical starting point.
By Perras Pierre on 5/15/2024
We can't reproduce most of the step as we don't have the same firmware or it is not explain properly. Sad as everything else if good quality
By Diego Emerson on 3/31/2023
The course facilitates understanding the Firmware Reverse Enginnering. It is essential knowledge to hacking IoT devices. I bought the book 'Practical ioT Hacking' and this topic was difficult to understand with just the book knowledge.
By Josué Leiva on 2/17/2023
All the course's contents are clear and well explained. It's clearly visible that the teacher is an expert in the matter. All the practical content is awesome.
By Mark James on 8/6/2021
Great introduction to IOT hacking. Highly recommended.
By Jorge Alberto Julio Vargas on 7/9/2021
El contenido se me ha hecho muy interesante, pero sería estupendo que se tuviera en español.
By Ded on 7/9/2021
The course was very comprehensive and easy to understand. Thank you so much for this great course!
By Juan Angel Ringhetti on 7/9/2021
Excelente. Una crítica constructiva, se podría ir mejorando la subtitulación (es claro que es automática)
By Liam Crowder on 7/6/2021
Some interesting information but not in-depth enough and seemed rushed. Also, post production editing wouldn't go a miss. I nearly had a brain aneurysm when two pipes were used instead of one.
By Learner DM on 7/4/2021
course is very awesome. I recommend this course for understanding about IOT HACKING
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Overall Score : 86 / 100






