Physical Security Village·25 min
Andrew Lebedinsky
Shows how to turn physical red team findings into realistic threat evidence and dollar-based impact that persuades executives to fund fixes.
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Physical Security Village·25 min
Andrew Lebedinsky
Shows how to turn physical red team findings into realistic threat evidence and dollar-based impact that persuades executives to fund fixes.
Physical Security Village·40 min
Langston Clement · Dan Goga
Shows how to build low-cost implant RFID readers and use a Flipper Zero to clone badges remotely, with the social engineering that makes it work.
Physical Security Village·31 min
Michael Aguilar
Shows how a physical red team uses open-source research, pretexts and cloned badge credentials to get past building perimeters and reach internal networks.
Physical Security Village·26 min
Bill Graydon · Bobby Graydon
Explains which physical marks lock picking, tool-based bypasses, and electronic tampering leave behind, and how to tell whether a door was entered.
Physical Security Village·22 min
Brad Ammerman
Presents FORTRESS, a categorized model of physical security TTPs mapped to compliance controls for repeatable red and blue team assessments.
Physical Security Village·16 min
Ege Feyzioglu · Karen Ng
Explains how RFID key fobs and badges communicate, why unencrypted ID exchanges are easy to sniff, and how Proxmark and Flipper tools copy them.
Physical Security Village·56 min
Andrew Quill
Shows how a low-cost RF rig can disrupt NFC badge readers and push entry checks down to a weaker fallback.
Physical Security Village·43 min
Roger Egan
Explains how weak configuration of access control readers, door contacts, keypads and request-to-exit sensors lets attackers and pen testers into buildings, with Flipper Zero demos.
Physical Security Village·25 min
Champ
Shows how internet-exposed access control panels with numeric-only passcodes and no rate limiting let remote attackers unlock doors and pull resident data.
Physical Security Village·56 min
Tim Roberts · Brent White
Shows how everyday travel habits, from hotel check-in and badges to card payments and room doors, expose people to theft and intrusion, with practical countermeasures.
Physical Security Village·36 min
Ben Higgins · Aaron Tulino
Shows how the Unsaflock hotel lock attack can run without any keycard, using a Flipper Zero to pull the property ID from the lock over the maintenance unit's NFC protocol.