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Product Description Low Tech Hacking teaches your students how to avoid and defend against some of the simplest and most common hacks. Criminals using hacking techniques can cost corporations, governments, and individuals millions of dollars each year. While the media focuses on the grand-scale attacks that have been planned for months and executed by teams and countries, there are thousands more that aren't broadcast. This book focuses on the everyday hacks that, while simple in nature, actually add up to the most significant losses. It provides detailed descriptions of potential threats and vulnerabilities, many of which the majority of the information systems world may be unaware. It contains insider knowledge of what could be your most likely low-tech threat, with timely advice from some of the top security minds in the world. Author Jack Wiles spent many years as an inside penetration testing team leader, proving that these threats and vulnerabilities exist and their countermeasures work. His contributing authors are among the best in the world in their respective areas of expertise. The book is organized into 8 chapters covering social engineering; locks and ways to low tech hack them; low tech wireless hacking; low tech targeting and surveillance; low tech hacking for the penetration tester; the law on low tech hacking; and information security awareness training as a countermeasure to employee risk. This book will be a valuable resource for penetration testers, internal auditors, information systems auditors, CIOs, CISOs, risk managers, fraud investigators, system administrators, private investigators, ethical hackers, black hat hackers, corporate attorneys, and members of local, state, and federal law enforcement. Amazon.com Review Top 10 List of Just a Few Things to Consider About the Locks that We Use at Home and at Work to Hopefully Make Physical Security Really Secure By Jack Wiles, AKA “Low Tech Jack,” Lead Author, Low Tech Hacking Jack Wiles 1. Learn More About Locks. Modern pin tumbler locks have been around, and virtually unchanged, since the mid 1800s. They have remained a mystery to most people until the Internet made the world a much smaller place. It's encouraging to see more people take an interest in learning how locks work, and how vulnerable some of them are to being bypassed using some very low-tech methods. 2. Check Your Locks. Locks are obviously mechanical devices and subject to mechanical malfunction. In every inside penetration test that I took part in, we found as least one lock that was not functioning because of lack of preventative maintenance or improper installation. 3. Buy Good Locks. When I'm in the hardware section of a store that sells locks, I like to watch people as they go about the process of selecting a lock for their home or school locker. Since most locks look pretty much the same on the outside, most people select the least expensive lock that they can find. These locks might work just fine, but from a security standpoint, as is usually the case, we get what we pay for. Invest just a little more and buy good locks. 4. Who Has The Keys To Your World At Work? Key control is absolutely critical in the business world. Many buildings have Master, Grand Master, and even Great Grand Master key coding systems. Many of these key systems have remained unchanged for years. It's important to know where these master keys (or any building keys for that matter) are, and who has copies of them. This is certainly the case if the keys use a key blank that is somewhat common and easily duplicated. I've been amazed to see the number of different key blanks that small key cutting vendors have on hand at local flea markets where keys can be duplicated for about $1, no questions asked. 5. Audit Your Locks. I've been preaching about the need to audit locks for many years now. I'm talking about a close functionality audit to insure that the locks are working
