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Penetration Testing TV Series Coming
ChazeFroy writes "CourtTV (TruTV) has a new series starting Dec. 25 at 11 pm called 'Tiger Team.' It follows a group of elite penetration testers hired to test organizations' security using social engineering, wired/wireless penetration testing, and physically defeating security mechanisms (lock picking, dumpster diving, going through air vents/windows). They do all of this while avoiding the organizations' various security defenses as well as law enforcement. The stars of the show also did a radio spot this morning in Denver." Wonder how they socially engineer away the presence of a camera team in the air vents.
Opening montage of the show is on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Be-ZzcXVLw
They have signed papers indicating they are permitted to do penetration testing, by request of the organization they are testing. If they get arrested, they show the papers, the police verify them, and they get released.
Similar concept, but with houses and physical security only.
In one article I read about the practice of penetration testing, the firm doing the testing coordinated with the local police department, so that they would be aware of what was going on.
So from the radio interview, they explain one of their breakins into an expensive car dealership. The weak point is as usual the employees who let them video tape the place and let one of them into the data center just because he managed to get (through dumpster diving) the business card of their support company.
I know these guys. One of them is a Defcon Goon and has a book or three published oo, the other's a better lockpicker than you will ever dream of being, the third guy's a prtty slick business brain. I'd happily bet any single one of them against you and a team of your choice for skills.
Indeed, I had to drop keywords like "bank" and "robbery" and add "Angola" to finally get results out of Google News.
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