physical security – DiabloHorn

YOLO detect security cameras

This is just a quick memo to myself on how to visually detect security cameras. Written down some commands, thoughts and the weights I generated along the way.

https://github.com/DiabloHorn/seccam-detect/

With the YOLO library building these types of solutions to visually detect objects seems to be relatively straight forward. Here is an example of it working, having used a rather small sample set and a medium sized model:

Would be nice to integrate this into some fancy glasses with a camera somewhere in the future. For now it is good enough to use on recorded video material.

Random thoughts on physical security measures

Lately, I’ve been drawn to do some desk research and limited hands-on testing of physical security measures. I’ve written about this subject before, you can find the article here. However, that article was written from the perspective of using social engineering to get into target locations during day time. Which was always lots of fun to do!

This time I was much more wondering about, what if you want to get in at night, while all the security measures are in place? If you wonder why, well for one because it is fun to do this type of breaking & entering legally and also because there are a ton of gadgets or potential gadgets.

This blog is mostly intended to make sure I don’t forget about all kind of possibilities to break in to facilities while all the security measures are enabled. Always useful to talk to yourself in written form right (hence the feeling that it might feel like ramblings, if you decide to read on)? This blog is not intended to determine if physical attacks are the most appropriate attacks to execute, since most attackers nowadays are doing almost everything remote. At least that is the current view on threat actors as far as I can tell from public sources.

Keep in mind that I’m no expert on this subject and that most of these options have only been desk researched and others are sort of a hobby for me. Basically: I am pretty sure I’m gonna be wrong in a couple of places. Feel free to leave better suggestions in the comments.

Physical home security options

During one of those boring afternoons I noticed that most embassy buildings seem to have more or less the same amount of visible physical protection, this made me wonder what the available options are if you’d want to protect your own house. These are just some quick notes after searching around the internet on another boring afternoon, most of the options have an additional wide variety of configuration possibilities. So if you decide to implement any of the mentioned options, please do some research yourself, since these are just some starting points and you should choose the appropriate configuration yourself.

Keep in mind that (as far as I know) most options discussed here can be bypassed. Like with all security measures you should base the choices you make on a layered approach. The sum of all the protective measures should buy you enough time to detect a break in and react before any valuables are stolen. Feel free to leave additional measures in the comments or how to bypass the measures in this article. Do keep in mind that these measures will be a lot less effective if they decide to break in while you are at home, also these security measure are not aimed at preventing social engineering attacks. As usual I’ve got no clue what the rules in your country are, so read up on them before you implement some of the following options.

Oh and if you want an example of how physical security measures can by bypassed then you’ll probably enjoy this article. It’s about one of the biggest ($100 million) diamond heists in Belgium and how the attackers bypassed ten physical security measures: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist

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