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.

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Boss is in on it

[RealGrouchy]

From the looks of the trailer/montage, it looks like these are people who are paid by the site owners to test the security systems; the tech security equivalent of "secret shoppers".

Not very surprising, but what does surprise me is that the site owners are letting CourtTV broadcast to the world that their facilities are insecure.

- RG>