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		<title>DEFCON 18: LOCKS, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See the Wired.com, AFP, and Brickhouse Security articles.
DefCon is the largest hacking/security conference of its kind in the world. For the past six years, our research team has demonstrated vulnerabilities in both high security and conventional locks. This year our team (Marc Tobias, Tobias Bluzmanis, Matt Fiddler) selected five different locking mechanisms that are popular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesidebar.org/insecurity/?p=515</link>
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		<title>ASSA CLIQ®, MEDECO LOGIC®, and SECURITY ENGINEERING: A Failure of Imagination</title>
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The new Assa Solo was recently introduced in Europe and we believe is the latest Cliq design. We were provided with samples and were able to show a reporter for Wired&#8217;s Threat Level how to completely circumvent the electronic credentials in less than thirty seconds, which she easily accomplished. This is the latest and most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesidebar.org/insecurity/?p=447</link>
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		<title>NBC TODAY SHOW: Lock bumping in the news again</title>
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In case you missed it, there was a new segment on bumping that aired on the Today Show in the U.S. on July 8. Incredibly, the NBC lawyers would not allow the use of the term &#8220;bump key&#8221; because they were worried that viewers might figure out how to open locks! Then they showed a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesidebar.org/insecurity/?p=365</link>
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		<title>LECTURE ON HIGH SECURITY MECHANICAL LOCKS AND ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS: University of Cambridge Computer Security Lab, Cambridge, England on April 28, 2009</title>
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MEDECO NEXGEN electronic cylinder utilized in vending machines, parking meters,
cargo containers and other applications where an audit trail is required.


MEDECO NEXGEN cylinder is installed in a specially-designed padlock to secure cargo and other valuables. The lock provides a complete audit trail of all accesses with the Medeco-supplied key. The lock is in the open position.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesidebar.org/insecurity/?p=282</link>
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		<title>DUBAI HITB SECURITY CONFERENCE: Protection of Critical Infrastructure and the use of Electronic Access Control Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be speaking again this year at the Hack in the Box security conference in Dubai, UAE, on April 22, 2009. For the past two years I have participated in this gathering of almost 1000 security experts from Europe and the Middle East who meet to give presentations about wide-ranging cyber and physical security [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesidebar.org/insecurity/?p=248</link>
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		<title>SALTO SYSTEMS INTERVIEWS: Overview of Access control technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently visited Salto Systems in San Sebastian, Spain, and interviewed Marc Handles, one of the original founders of the company. I spoke with him in regard to access control system technology and its level of sophistication. I think you will find the discussions valuable in terms of a survey and in-depth analysis of capabilities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesidebar.org/insecurity/?p=246</link>
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		<title>AIRPORT CITIES MAGAZINE, DUBAI: New article on airports and high security locks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote an article for the Airport Cities magazine as a result of my lecture in Dubai last April, which was published in their September, 2008 issue. It deals with the importantance of high security locks for use in airports, and discusses the failure of key control in Medeco locks, as well as other high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesidebar.org/insecurity/?p=241</link>
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		<title>SNEAKEY PROJECT: Capturing key bitting data remotely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I interviewed Dr. Stefan Savage, the professor at the University of California San Diego, that directed the research team that developed a prototype for analyzing the images of keys to decode their bitting code. 
The team issued a report last week that detailed its findings.
Although remote optical capture of bitting information is not new, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesidebar.org/insecurity/?p=236</link>
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		<title>MEDECO OPEN IN 23 SECONDS: The record is broken!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will we have to change the title of our book as a result of what happened this past weekend?  Maybe!

Tobias Bluzmanis cuts keys with a Medeco key machine, so everyone could learn how to open the locks.


Matt Fiddler (right) instructs on bumping open Medeco locks.

As usual, Barry Wels and Han Fey organized an incredible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesidebar.org/insecurity/?p=192</link>
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		<title>SO JUST HOW SECURE ARE MEDECO ARX PINS? Ask 13 Year Old JennaLynn!</title>
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Marc Tobias, JennaLynn, and Tobias Bluzmanis at Defcon 16 lock picking village
See the Video that documents JennaLynn opening a five-pin Medeco Biaxial at Defcon 16, in 2008.
See the PowerPoint presentation at Defcon 16.
At Defcon 16 this year, we demonstrated that the high security ARX pins that Medeco may be relying upon to fix the Medecoder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thesidebar.org/insecurity/?p=181</link>
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