Episode
15 November 2017 Official episode · Official transcript
penetration test social engineering
The episode features Jason E. Street describing physical security awareness engagements in Beirut banks, including social-engineering pretexts, unauthorized access to teller areas, USB-device testing, and attempts to obtain credentials, equipment, and network access.
Topics: Physical security assessments, Security awareness engagements, Social engineering and pretexting, Unauthorized physical access, USB keyboard-emulation attacks, Credential and smart-card exposure, Network-room access, Tailgating and access-control failures, Employee verification procedures, Incident response and forensic wiping
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Qualified statements from this episode, not graph facts.
Jason E. Street USES Security Awareness Engagement
Jason performs what he calls security awareness engagements to test whether employees and physical security controls can stop an unauthorized person.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 6 Details
“One of his favorite things to do is what he calls Security Awareness Engagement.”
Jason E. Street USES Physical security testing
Jason is hired to test the physical security of company locations.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 6 Details
“He’s hired by companies to test the physical security of a place.”
Jason E. Street USES social engineering
Jason uses social manipulation and plausible explanations to gain access to offices, teller areas, and computers during engagements.
Derived Confidence 97% · Jason E. Street EP 6 Details
“It’s all psychological.”
“I tell her that yeah, I’m here with the auditor.”
Jason E. Street USES Pretexting
Jason uses fabricated auditor, Microsoft, and headquarters-related stories as pretexts to obtain access.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jason E. Street EP 6 Details
“I could have done all these pretexts”
Jason E. Street USES Unauthorized physical access
Jason physically enters and moves through areas where he should not have been during the engagement.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 6 Details
“he did cross the line for where he shouldn’t have been physically”
Jason E. Street USES USB Rubber Ducky
Jason carries and plugs a USB Rubber Ducky into employee and teller computers to test whether they can be controlled.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jason E. Street EP 6 Details
“Usually it’s a pwn plug, it’s a USB rubber ducky”
“The first thing he does is plug a rubber ducky into her machine.”
Jason E. Street USES Pwn Plug
Jason says his vest of doom usually contains a Pwn Plug for demonstrating potential damage.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jason E. Street EP 6 Details
“Usually it’s a pwn plug”
Jason E. Street USES Proxmark3
Jason says his mission equipment may include a Proxmark3 tool.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jason E. Street EP 6 Details
“it may be a Proxmark3 tool”
Jason E. Street USES Dropboxes
Jason says his vest may contain Dropboxes as part of the equipment used to demonstrate potential damage.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jason E. Street EP 6 Details
“a couple Dropboxes, just some malicious things to show them the damage that I could do”
USB Rubber Ducky USES Keystroke injection
The USB Rubber Ducky identifies itself as a keyboard and sends prerecorded keyboard commands to the computer.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 6 Details
“it tells the computer that it’s a keyboard and rubber ducky then proceeds to send pre-recorded keyboard commands”
Jason E. Street USES User ID and password
Jason obtains and uses a user ID and password as objectives in the bank security engagement.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Jason E. Street EP 6 Details
“I will get us a user ID, a password, a smart card, a computer, and network access.”
Jason E. Street USES Smart card
Jason obtains a smart card from a supervisor during the engagement as one of the requested objectives.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Jason E. Street EP 6 Details
“While I was there I got the user ID, the password, and the smart card from one of the main supervisors.”
Beirut ASSOCIATED_WITH Lebanon
Jack identifies Beirut as the capital city of Lebanon.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 6 Details
“Beirut is the capital city of Lebanon”
Darknet Diaries REFERENCES Breakthrough
The episode references the Breakthrough program as documenting Jason's bank break-in.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 6 Details
“that break-in he did was documented by National Geographic for an episode of a show called Breakthrough”
Breakthrough ASSOCIATED_WITH National Geographic
Breakthrough is described as a National Geographic show or episode that filmed Jason doing some of the security-testing activities.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 6 Details
“there’s even an episode of National Geographic that filmed him doing some of the stuff”
Works mentioned in the transcript. Distinct from show-note sources.
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