Security BSides Las Vegas 2025

John-André Bjørkhaug

John-André Bjørkhaug has worked as a penetration tester for over 16 years. He has a degree in electrical engineering but prefer to break things instead of building things. This led him to become a hacker/penetration tester. John's main focus is penetration testing of internal infrastructure and physical security system together with social engineering and full scale Red Team tests. John picked his first lock when he was 10, and still loving it!


Session

08-05
14:00
45min
Taking down the power grid!
John-André Bjørkhaug

The talk is a step by step warstory on how we as a Red Team was able to go from nothing to physical access to the EMP secure server room with the servers that control the power grid for a large part of the country.

PasswordsCon
Tuscany