Person
Deviant Ollam
person:deviant_ollam
Also: Deviant
Physical penetration specialist who performs and teaches physical security testing, lock bypass, safe manipulation, and covert entry.
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Mentioned in
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EP 134
Explicit
100%
Physical penetration specialist who performs and teaches physical security testing, lock bypass, safe manipulation, and covert entry.
“My name is Deviant Ollam and I am a physical penetration specialist.”
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EP 158
Explicit
99%
Person identified in the episode as helping post bail for Marcus Hutchins.
“her name is Tarah Wheeler and Deviant Ollam”
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Claims
Deviant Ollam
USES
physical penetration testing
Deviant identifies himself as a physical penetration specialist and describes performing physical penetration testing.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“I am a physical penetration specialist.”
Deviant Ollam
USES
lock picking
Deviant says he has been involved in lock-picking and teaches it.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“I have been involved in lock-picking”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Safe manipulation
Deviant explicitly includes safe manipulation among the physical penetration activities he performs.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“lock-picking, safe manipulation, physical entry”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Physical entry bypass
Deviant says he has been involved in physical entry and physical bypass work.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“physical entry, physical bypass”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Door shimming
Deviant opened the law-firm door by shimming it with a piece of paper.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“I just shoved – I shimmed the door.”
Deviant Ollam
USES
social engineering
Deviant describes using impersonation and deception to persuade guards that he was an elevator technician.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“I lie for a living. I just dropped into it.”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Reconnaissance
Deviant describes observing buildings, guards, traffic, and entry points before conducting physical tests.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“That was almost a week of recon.”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Credential cloning
Deviant's team captured badge credentials and wrote the data onto a blank key card to gain access.
Explicit
Confidence 94%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“We’ll compromise the card readers.”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Tailgating
Deviant describes using vehicle and pedestrian tailgating to enter secured facilities.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 134
Details
“Our plan was, you’re gonna tailgate in behind what we think is a real vehicle”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Elevator independent service
Deviant says he put an elevator on independent service to keep it from answering general building calls while he hid inside.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“I’m gonna put the elevator on independent service”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Elevator hacking
Deviant and Howard Payne gave a talk covering ways to take over and manipulate elevators.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 134
Details
“a full one-hour talk of him and his friend, Howard Payne, going over so many ways that you can take over an elevator”
Deviant Ollam
USES
ESP key
Deviant says his team used ESP keys as interception devices behind card readers.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“It’s a device called an ESP key.”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Dropbox
Deviant's team used a dropbox, described as a headless computer, to connect to and backhaul access from the target network.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“this little dropbox, headless computer”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Signal
Deviant's team used Signal to communicate during the physical assessment.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“for us, we just Signal message”
Deviant Ollam
USES
Letter of authorization
Deviant carried and eventually presented a real letter of authorization to verify that the physical intrusion was an authorized test.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 134
Details
“So, he gave him his real one.”
Deviant Ollam
ASSOCIATED_WITH
Dark Tangent
Deviant says he was good friends with Dark Tangent, who encouraged him to teach lock-picking at Black Hat.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 134
Details
“Deviant was good friends with Dark Tangent”
Deviant Ollam
ASSOCIATED_WITH
Babak Javadi
Deviant identifies Babak Javadi as his main colleague in his physical-security consulting work.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Deviant Ollam
EP 134
Details
“my main colleague through all this has been Babak Javadi”
Deviant Ollam
ASSOCIATED_WITH
Howard Payne
Jack describes Howard Payne as Deviant's friend and co-presenter for the elevator hacking talk.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 134
Details
“him and his friend, Howard Payne”