New TV show "Tiger Team": social engineering, wired/wireless hacking, physical break-in

[sil0nt]

Digg link to spread the word
Stream or MP3 of radio interview with creators
youtube link to trailer/teaser/intro


CourtTV (TruTV) has a new series starting December 25 at 11 pm (yeah I know, not the greatest time slot) called "Tiger Team". It follows a group of penetration testers hired to test the security of organizations through social engineering, wired/wireless hacking, and physically defeating security mechanisms (lock picking, dumpster diving, going through air vents/windows), all while avoiding cops and other defenses.

This is a new take on reality TV... these are actual break-ins and hacks..

*edit: fixed link, added more links

 

[UNCjigga]

WTF is TruTV?

 

[mooglemania85]

Don't penetrate me bro?

 

[sil0nt]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
WTF is TruTV?

As far as I can tell, CourtTV is re-branding to TruTV starting Jan 1. They will cut down on the court related programming and start focus on real series. Dunno how well it will work, but this series should be good.

 

[sil0nt]

Oops.. link was broken.. fixed now..

 

[LtPage1]

Could be good, but I don't think I'm willing to support a network that calls itself "TruTV." I mean, that just goes beyond annoying deliberate misspelling.

 

[sil0nt]

Originally posted by: LtPage1
Could be good, but I don't think I'm willing to support a network that calls itself "TruTV." I mean, that just goes beyond annoying deliberate misspelling.

As long as it has good shows, I don't care what they call it...

 

[Fritzo]

I was part of a Penetration Team in college.

I was the least successful member

 

[sil0nt]

Radio interview with two of the guys from the show.. This should give you an idea the quality of the guys who put this on. Very cool, down to earth, but very knowledgeable and professional.

Stream or MP3

 

[sil0nt]

More stuff..

Trailer/teaser/intro for the show found here:

youtube link

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I was part of a Penetration Team in college.

Excellent quote to take out of context.

 

[ColdFusion718]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I was part of a Penetration Team in college.

I was the least successful member

Were you the one being penetrated?

 

[Rage187]

I watched the first 2 episodes and really liked it. The Social Engineering aspect of it is amazing. Just shows you how stupid people are and how easily they can be fooled.

 

[Rage187]

nobody watched this?

 

[Gooberlx2]

I saw it the other night. It was actually really interesting. I also liked the social engineering aspect as well as the technical aspects. Granted, the lengths they go through to break in is pretty unrealistic for 99.9% of burglars. But if some Ethan Hunt/Mission Impossible type ever did want to break in, they're finding out how and how to fix it.

 

[sil0nt]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
I saw it the other night. It was actually really interesting. I also liked the social engineering aspect as well as the technical aspects. Granted, the lengths they go through to break in is pretty unrealistic for 99.9% of burglars. But if some Ethan Hunt/Mission Impossible type ever did want to break in, they're finding out how and how to fix it.

These are just three regular guys doing stuff anyone with some experience could pull off. I am not knocking their talent, but the stuff they are doing is *real* and can in fact be done.

Good shows, though. Looking forward to more.

 

[Skeeedunt]

Sounds interesting, but I can't seem to find any other record of its existence...

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: sil0nt

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
I saw it the other night. It was actually really interesting. I also liked the social engineering aspect as well as the technical aspects. Granted, the lengths they go through to break in is pretty unrealistic for 99.9% of burglars. But if some Ethan Hunt/Mission Impossible type ever did want to break in, they're finding out how and how to fix it.

These are just three regular guys doing stuff anyone with some experience could pull off. I am not knocking their talent, but the stuff they are doing is *real* and can in fact be done.

Good shows, though. Looking forward to more.

Exactly, it's real, which is awesome. But I think you'd be hard pressed to find very many burglars cloning RFID chips, testing motion detector limits, scrambling wireless signals and dusting fingerprints for safe codes. That's all I mean by the Mission Impossible reference.

 

[Minjin]

I just watched both episodes and they were fairly entertaining. Nothing they did was really all that hard. A tech geek who read Hardy Boys books as a kid could pull off everything they've shown so far. Still, it was pretty neat.

edit: even hackaday has done rfid cloners: Text