Heistmeisters crack cost of safecrackers with $150 widget

  • 13 October 2014
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It really beats me why they want to publicize the fact that they can do it, there is nothing like giving the crims an idea.
 

Arduino hack-box brute-forces ATMs, gun safes

By Darren Pauli, 13 Oct 2014  

The autodialer. A pair of Melbourne security professionals have developed a $150 auto-dialer safe cracker that replicates a machine worth tens of thousands of dollars and sold only to military customers.
The unit launches automatic brute force attacks against group two combination locks used in high-security environments like ATMs and gun safes.
 Current and former penetration testers Luke Janke and Jay Davis created the device using Arduino and 3D printed components.
"They pretty much use group two locks for everything," Davis said at the Ruxcon security conference in Melbourne.
 
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Just great!!! announce this to the world and all the crooks will be jumping on this for sure. These 2 security professionals wanted to see their face in the news so they can pound their chests and say look what I've accomplished.

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