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Industrial Recon: Google Maps Security Secrets Revealed #shorts

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Google Maps reveals size, location, and access points of industrial facilities. Street View confirms perimeter defenses. But high sensitivity can cause false alarms—an opportunity? #bsidesfrankfurt #bsides #bsidesfra #infosec #OSINT #GoogleMaps
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For industrial settings specifically, uh Google Maps is a gold mine because you can get a very good idea of the size of the facility, of where it's located, of access points, everything. You don't usually have industrial facilities in the middle of your city, right? But you could also see it's a very extensive wide and open area. You could see some perimeter defenses like fences, uh parking lots, accessways, and a couple of buildings that might be interesting. Then using street view for example we could confirm yeah indeed there are fences uh quite tall fences actually like two to three meters high so could be tricky to jump over. Um there were lots of cameras we could already see

that. Uh and there was only one single gate for entrance. So that could be a challenge. Um also we found it's close with the public so there's no events taking place there. There's no guided tours. No bring your child to work day whatever. You wouldn't find that there. They told us they are highly sensitive. So much so that even birds landing on the fences would regularly trigger them, which is good and bad for us. Bad because it's highly sensitive and they would for sure detect us. Good because they were triggering and causing false alarms constantly. So maybe that's an idea.