Category Archives: The CORE Group

Recently, I put together a presentation called “I’ll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Penetration Testers” which highlights the means by which my team gains entry to target facilities.  Despite being known in the security community as a lockpicking guy, most of my covert entry work does not involve lockpicking… at least not as a […]

For a number of years, lockpickers and locksmiths have taken an interest in the Transportation Security Adminstration’s system of master keys used by TSO screeners in airports to open luggage locks that conform to “Travel Sentry” standards. These locks, and their attendant master keys, are produced by a variety of manufacturers who license the designs […]

As promised in our earlier blog post about upcoming training opportunities, we are now revealing the updated and revised training kit that is issued to all students in CORE Group physical penetration classes.  This is not just a hands-on learning assortment, this is a beautiful selection of physical entry gear.  We’ve pruned down some of the […]

The CORE Group will be offering multi-day training courses in Orlando, San Francisco, and New Orleans this spring.  Then we’ll be in and Baltimore and of course Las Vegas as always.  If you’ve ever wanted to attend one of our sessions but the room was full or you couldn’t fit it into your schedule, then […]

CORE’s Director of Research, Babak Javadi, will be showcasing some of his latest electronic attack techniques against a very common security platform that many of us encounter, even if we rarely make use of it… hotel room safes.           These safe products, often small and often “electronic” in some nature, all […]

Those of you who follow news of physical security hardware development and are fans of interesting and unique locks are possibly already familiar with the “Forever Lock” product.  Popularized by an ex-pat living in Taiwan, where they are manufactured, LockMan28 has been selling these to interested parties via the internet and they tend to pop up from […]

Things are going great in Las Vegas this summer. Our Physical Penetration classes are full of very satisfied students, many of whom are experiencing the thrill of opening locks via new techniques that the have never tried before. Also, many of our popular Physical Penetration tools are featured in the Black Hat store.  Attendees are all asking […]