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Why you need this bookRansomware gangs no longer target just corporations. A hijacked baby cam, a bricked thermostat, or a demand for Bitcoin to turn your lights back on can hit any household. Veteran penetration tester Jasper Lowe shows you how to out-engineer criminals with consumer hardware and open-source software - no computer-science degree required.
What you'll master
ISP-independent defence - cache DNS, mirror firmware, and keep Home Assistant running when the internet-or the attacker-pulls the plug. DIY hardware firewall - flash inexpensive single-board routers with OpenWRT, write tight iptables rules, and add automatic IP-block-list feeds. "Guest-IoT-Work" network slicing - VLANs, MAC whitelists, and WPA3 keys that quarantine every smart bulb without throttling your Zoom calls. Ransomware kill-switch backups - air-gapped snapshots, immutable ZFS datasets, and a Raspberry Pi that boots an emergency media server. Offline voice & automation - swap cloud skill servers for open-source alternatives so Alexa-style convenience survives an outage. Rapid incident response - three-command triage to freeze traffic, trace the breach, and re-flash compromised gadgets in under an hour.
Real-world walkthroughs include: blocking Mirai clones on a TP-Link router, converting an old laptop into a Security Onion sensor, and building a Faraday-cage charging locker for guests' devices.
About the authorJasper Lowe has broken into Fortune-500 networks (legally) for fifteen years, teaches blue-team tactics at DEF CON's Blue Village, and runs the popular "Home Lab Ops" YouTube channel.
