A Quick Way to Defeat a Padlock

The Attack

Forget breaching the lock.

Instead, remove the plate and loop the lock is attached to.

The Defence

Install the plates and loops on the inside of the doors.

Same thinking as to why the hinges on your home’s exterior doors are located inside your house, or should be.

 

 

 

Lock Picking Tools look like This

Set of lock picks

The L-shaped ones on the right are “torsion wrenches”. Use one of those simultaneously with one of the “picks” on the left.

A lock pick gun

It automates the above process, and while often seen in movies, it’s not that seamless.

It’s way noisier than you’d like it to be, and causes more damage to the lock than picks, leaving evidence of your presence.

(always be mindful of where you leave fingerprints.)

Spotted at SecTor 2014

 

 

ShmooCon 2012 in DC at the Washington Hilton

ShmooCon is the premiere East-coast annual hacker convention

This year’s bag.

Did you see this outside the lobby to the left Saturday afternoon?

A crane dropped what it was holding.

I procured a new laptop bag, sweet.

Espeically since this was the bag I was using.

ArcSight, nice, I’ve blogged about them before.

Attended some talks, the NFC one was interesting but over my head, and the HNN one was my favourite.

Not much to show you about the actual conference though – it’s impolite to wave your camera around recording things at such events. It’s nothing mysterious, just the nature of the industry.

Same at all the conferences, same as Defcon.

Which is why I’m extra proud of this video; I’m pretty sure I have one of the only videos in the world showing inside last year’s Defcon19.

Adding to that, you can imagine going online during these events, you best be prepared. This is ‘the best of the best’ gathered together. Which is why I didn’t let my laptop touch the hotel network and my MiFi went down.

There’s always someone better than you. And cleaning up after a compromise is never worth the couple days you missed internetting.

I can tell you though, about the couple that got engaged, congratulations you two!

And show you the cutest thing, look:

The bride-to-be had to pick her way inside to find the run, awww.

Then Saturday night it’s the annual party at ‘Heaven and Hell’.

Thanks for a great time, SchmooCon!

Great seeing your familiar face again, and great meeting your new one, TTYS