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Advanced Physical Attacks

Eric Schmiedl

Eric Schmiedl details dEF CON 16 - Eric Schmiedl: Advanced Physical Attacks: Going Beyond Social Engineering and Dumpster Diving, Or, Techniques of Industrial Espionage Your stack is smash-proof.

Summary

Architecture and Background

DEF CON 16 - Eric Schmiedl: Advanced Physical Attacks: Going Beyond Social Engineering and Dumpster Diving, Or, Techniques of Industrial Espionage Your stack is smash-proof. Your dumpster is fully alarmed.

Vulnerability Analysis

And your firewall is so secure that it has former Soviet officials green with envy. So why are the developers finding their undocumented features in competitors' products, or company executives on a constant hunt for leaks and traitors?

Exploitation and Demonstrations

There's a whole lot more to doing an end-run around network security than calling up and pretending to be the help desk or hoping someone chucks a service manual in the trash Professional attackers with specific targets have a whole rash of techniques -- from using targeted employees to hiding microphones -- adopted from the world of espionage, and this talk is all about how they do what they do. Eric Schmiedl has spoken on access control systems at BlackHat 2007 and safecracking at DEFCON 14.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

He is a member of the TOOOL.US Board of Directors, maintains a semblance of an undergraduate career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has been picking locks all his life. For copies of the slides and additional materials please see the DEF CON 16 Archive here:

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