A team of hackers at Defcon 2017 has used a cheap robot to crack a “leading-brand” combination safe.<\/p>\n
According to a report by the BBC<\/strong><\/a>, the\u00a0SparkFun Electronics team\u00a0was able to open a SentrySafe safe in around 30 minutes.<\/p>\n The robot – which cost $200 to make and is mainly 3D-printed – cracked the safe by reducing the number of possible combinations from one million to 1,000.<\/p>\n It then tried the remaining combinations until the safe opened on\u00a051-36-93.<\/p>\n The report stated that the robot assesses one of the three dials in an analogue combination safe and detects its size and indents.<\/p>\n As the “correct indent” is slightly larger than the rest, the robot was able to identify the correct third number as 93 in 20 seconds.<\/p>\n “The other two dials cannot be measured, but eliminating one greatly reduces the number of possible combinations,” stated the report.<\/p>\n Certain combination safes also account for human error, and have a small range on each number which allows it to open. For example, a safe with “14” selected as one of its numbers will also open on 13 and 15.<\/p>\n A team of hackers at Defcon 2017 has used a cheap robot to crack a “leading-brand” combination safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":222323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3490,11749],"class_list":["post-222321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-defcon","tag-safe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222327,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222321\/revisions\/222327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Russia to ban VPNs<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"