
Keys to the Kingdom
Impressioning, Privilege Escalation, Bumping, and Other Key-Based Attacks Against Physical Locks
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Description
Key Features
- Excellent companion to Deviant Ollam’s Practical Lock Picking
- Understand the typical failings of common security hardware in order to avoid these weaknesses
- Learn advanced methods of physical attack in order to be more successful with penetration testing
- Detailed full-color photos in the book make learning easy, and companion website is filled with invalualble training videos from Dev!
Readership
Information Security professionals of all levels, hackers, people whose jobs entail physical security (both defensive and offensive) and especially penetration testers. This book will also be popular with lock picking hobbyists, and those who purchased the author’s previous volume Practical Lock Picking
Table of Contents
Dedication
Author’s Note
About the Author
About the Technical Editor
Chapter 1. Impressioning
The Mechanics of Pin Tumbler Locks
What is Impressioning?
Why Choose Impressioning?
How Impressioning Works
Tips and Tricks
Open!
Locks That Resist Impressioning
Training Aids and Exercises
Summary
Chapter 2. Soft Medium Attacks
Foil Keys
Wax Keys
Mold-and-Cast Attacks
Summary
Chapter 3. Master-Keyed Systems
Introduction
How Master-Keying Works
Attacking Master-Keyed Systems
Other Methods of Master Key Compromise
Defending Against This Attack
Maison-Keying
Summary
Chapter 4. Bump Keys
Introduction
Snapping Attacks
Bump Keys
Summary
Chapter 5. Overlifting
Introduction
Rear Shimming
Overlifting Wafers
Overlifting Pins
Summary
Chapter 6. Skeleton Keys
Introduction
Warded Locks
Simple Skeleton Keys
More Complicated Skeleton Keys
Warded Picks
Types of Warded Locks
Summary
Chapter 7. SmartKey Attacks
Introduction
The Kwikset SmartKey System
Decoding SmartKey Locks
Summary
Chapter 8. Don’t Let Your Keys Talk to Strangers
Introduction
Key Decoding
Key Photographing
Making Keys Resistant to Decoding
One More Trick Up Your Sleeve
Summary
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 256
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Syngress 2012
- Published: September 24, 2012
- Imprint: Syngress
- eBook ISBN: 9780123979308
- Paperback ISBN: 9781597499835