Security Bsides Las Vegas 2024

Tactics of a Trash Panda
2024-08-06 , Florentine E

In a world of specialized entry tooling, where does a single person stand in terms of manufacturing their own entry tools? In this talk, we venture into what it means to be a "haccer" and use resources from various sources (pleasure driven retailers, craft stores, and other regular origins) to create our own versions of popular physical tooling.


Specialized tooling for covert entry exists all around us, with price tags places on equipment to serve a single purpose, it can be difficult to have discretion or peace when preparing and executing physical entry assessments. In this talk we cover commercially available "red team tools" and substituting them for lower cost or more "flamboyant" alternatives.

Several implements are discussed, here are examples, but not limited to:

improvised bump hammers
DIY double door tools
cheaper door shims for loiding
a key casting kit that doesn't cost 90 dollars
fingerprint dust alternatives

additionally, the presenter discusses his own kit and various commercial alternatives for electronic implements

Angel Gamboa is one of the security consultants of all time. He has 6 years experience in various disciplines such as netpen, appsec, red team, and vuln research offensive roles. This sounds cool, but he's really just a dude from Kansas.