Posts Tagged ‘riftrecon’
Introducing: The 7&8 Pin Tubular Pick – Now Included With Red Team Kit Toolset
The 7&8 Pin Tubular Pick is a sweet tool: Instead of skipping over tubular locks (which we encounter fairly common in the field) during an audit, picking becomes a simple task. Lighten your loadout. With the 7&8 Pin Tubular Pick you no longer need to carry two devices. Now cabinets, soda machines, arcade cabinets, a…
Read MoreAfter Action Report: March’s Art of Escape
April 15th, 2014 March’s Art of Escape was all about new faces, strange places, and facing unexpected obstacles with exceptional results. The first major change was staff-related: Rift Recon was thrilled to welcome Brian O’Shea to the team as a Trainer and Senior Intelligence Advisor. Brian brings over twenty years of intelligence and tactical risk…
Read MoreAfter Action Report: January’s Art of Escape
AFTER ACTION REPORT: January’s Art of Escape By now, you’ve certainly heard about Rift Recon’s most successful mission to date: the debut of our Art of Escape training in January. We ran our participants through numerous tutorials, tests, and tribulations, and though they emerged in one piece, smiling for the camera at their “graduation,” it…
Read MoreBourbon heists, spies, a suitcase stuffed with $1.7 million and other stories from the Rift
Here’s a recap of our favorite news stories recently featured in the Rift Recon newsletter: Drug Traffickers Hacked Major Shipping Port Tracking System The scheme sounds like a work of near science fiction. But police in the Netherlands and Belgium insist it’s true, and say they have the evidence to prove it: two tons of…
Read MoreWe’re hiring
Rift Recon is hiring and we’re pretty sure some of the people reading this post will be a perfect fit. All in a days work We’re based in San Francisco and have primary team members in different parts of the US. Rift is growing fast and we’re about to introduce a range of new retail…
Read MoreIntroducing: The Rift Recon Dossier
We’re extremely pleased with what the team here has accomplished in the first six weeks since Rift’s official launch. We have a new partnership with ExploitHub, our online store is open and stocked, we’re running fast with a newsletter every week, and we’re putting new products online every chance we get… Now we get to…
Read MoreAnnouncing the Rift Recon Online Shop + New Tools
Last night – while you were sleeping – the Rift Recon Store went live. After processing our first orders this morning, we’re excited to announce that the launch is now official: the Rift Recon Store offers the highest quality physical security and penetration testing products and kits, and trainings, available anywhere. The Rift Recon Store…
Read MoreGear Review of the TOOOL.us Tremendous Twelve Toolkit
This is the 12 piece lockpick set offered by the TOOOL organization, designed by their members to open as many locks possible with the least amount of effort. I have been testing this set for nearly a week now and I will share my findings with you. Upon initial inspection I found the picks themselves…
Read More#LOLBitcoin Party Access Control System Setup
At Defcon 21 earlier this month ExploitHub and Rift Recon held #LOLBitcoin, a party at a two story Sky Villa in the Palms Hotel. In order to get in, guests had to solve a multi-phase crypto challenge (Walkthrough posted on the ExploitHub blog) or receive a VIP pass. Here Rift Recon engineer John Norman describes…
Read MoreIn Pictures: A Peek Behind The Scenes at Rift Recon
We’re getting a lot of great questions about how we create and document our products, make our selections, design our trainings, and more. Here’s a peek behind the scenes at Rift. This photo session with our Director of Products and Vendor Relations (internally known as Director of Armamentarium) Austin Appel shows the ‘Making Of’ some…
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