Keys to the Kingdom: Impressioning, Privilege Escalation, Bumping, and Other Key-Based Attacks Against Physical Locks

by Deviant Ollam

Overview

Lockpicking has become a popular topic with many in the security community. While many have chosen to learn the fine art of opening locks without keys, few people explore the fascinating methods of attack that are possible WITH keys. Keys to the Kingdom addresses the topics of impressioning, master key escalation, skeleton keys, and bumping attacks that go well beyond any treatment of these topics in the author’s previous book, Practical Lock Picking.

This material is all new and focuses on locks currently in use as well as ones that have recently emerged on the market. Hackers and pen testers or persons tasked with defending their infrastructure and property from invasion will find these techniques uniquely valuable. As with Deviant Ollam’s previous book, Practical Lock Picking,  Keys to the Kingdom includes full-color versions of all diagrams and photographs. Check out the companion website which includes instructional videos that provide readers with a full-on training seminar from the author.

• 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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123979308
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Deviant Ollam's first and strongest love has always been teaching. A graduate of the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Science, Technology, and Society program, he is always fascinated by the interplay that connects human values and social trends to developments in the technical world. While earning his BS degree at NJIT, Deviant also completed the History degree program federated between that institution and Rutgers University. While paying the bills as a security auditor and penetration testing consultant with The CORE Group, Deviant is also a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. division of TOOOL, The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers. Every year at DEFCON and ShmooCon, Deviant runs the Lockpick Village, and he has conducted physical security training sessions at Black Hat, DeepSec, ToorCon, HackCon, ShakaCon, HackInTheBox, CanSecWest, ekoparty, and the United States Military Academy at West Point. His favorite Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are, in no particular order, the 1st, 2nd, 9th, and 10th.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Key Impressioning

Chapter 2. Foil Key/Soft Key Attacks

Chapter 3. Master Key Privilege Escalation

Chapter 4. Key Bumping

Chapter 5. Skeleton Keys

Chapter 6. Cast and Mold Attacks

Chapter 7. Set-Up Keys

Chapter 8. Sight Decoding of Keys from Photos or in Real Life

Chapter 9. Decoding&Attacking User Re-Keyable Locks

Chapter 10. Construction Keying

Appendix – Indentifying Locks Based on Key Bow or Keyway Profile

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Learn intensive key-based attacks against physical locks from the master — Deviant Ollam

Editorial Reviews

"Ollam writes in a clear-cut and systematic manner, describing all of the details needed...For those who perform physical penetration testing, [this]…book will prove to be invaluable." —Slashdot.com and RSA Conference

From the Publisher