Safe Cracking
Safe Cracking is the act of breaking into a safe by means other than the usual combinations and keys. This may include methods such as combination guessing, drilling, punching, peeling, torches, and explosives.
Most modern high-security safes are protected against drilling attacks by the implementation of hard plate steel or composite hard plates designed to shatter the cutting tips of diamond discs and tungsten-carbide drill bits used in such attacks.
Combination Guessing
Combination guessing is the process of trying to open a safe with a correct sequence of digits. It's a popular way to determine safe cracking, but it can be difficult and requires patience.
As a rule, there are 10 possible values for each digit, so there are 1000 possible combinations for three-digit combination locks. Therefore, each guess has a 1/1000 chance of being right.
Fortunately, most combination locks have "slop" that allows for a few digits of error. This wiggle room can drastically reduce the number of combinations needed to unlock a safe, especially for less complex safes.
To test your new combinations, set up two line graphs with the x-axis on a line that spans from 0 to the highest number on the dial face. The y-axis should be narrow enough to clearly plot points 3 numbers apart or closer.
Weak Point Drilling
Safe cracking is a term used to describe methods of opening a safe that involves using tools to penetrate and break the lock. These tools may include acetylene torches, drills, and thermal lances.
Weak Point Drilling is a popular method of cracking safes. The idea is to find weak points in the locking mechanism so that a screwdriver can be inserted and manipulated.
Some high-security safes use glass relockers and thermal re-lockers to prevent this type of attack. These re-lockers are designed to engage whenever the temperature reaches a specific limit.
However, these lockers are not effective against all types of safes. Some models of safes have extra hard layers over the vulnerable lock area that make drilling completely impossible.
Brute Force
Brute force attacks are common way cybercriminals try to crack passwords. They involve a computer or bot running through a large number of possible combinations, often several hundred, to attempt to gain access to a user's account.
This isn't a quick process, and it can take hours or days to crack a complex eight-character password. This is why it is important to use strong passwords and a password manager, or at the very least to change them frequently.
There are many ways hackers can use brute force to break into accounts and steal information, including credential stuffing, where attackers collect the username and password combinations that they then test to see if they can gain access to additional accounts.
They may also use a botnet, which is a system of hijacked computers that provide processing power without the user's consent. This is an effective way to launch a brute force attack at scale, allowing cybercriminals to leverage the resources of thousands of hijacked devices.
Bypass
A bypass is a procedure used by safe crackers to open a safe without damaging it. It involves removing the outer skin of a safe so that the contents may be opened.
It can be accomplished through the use of a variety of tools including acetylene torches, drills, and thermal lances. These tools can be dangerous as they may cause significant damage to the contents of a safe.
Some high-security safes also feature glass re-lockers that engage whenever the temperature of the lance or torch exceeds a certain level. This helps prevent the use of heat-dissipating devices such as oxyacetylene torches or plasma cutters from forcefully opening the safe.
Another common method of obtaining the combination of an electronic safe lock is coercion or computer hacking. This is a very effective and efficient way of bypassing these locks, as they are very easy to access.
Safe Cracking is the act of breaking into a safe by means other than the usual combinations and keys. This may include methods such as combination guessing, drilling, punching, peeling, torches, and explosives. Most modern high-security safes are protected against drilling attacks by the implementation of hard plate steel or composite hard plates designed to…