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As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
Kevin Mitnick
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Kevin Mitnick
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 6
Computer Scientist
Computer Security Consultant
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Security Hacker
Van Nuys
California
Marty
Kevin David Mitnick
The Condor
The Darkside Hacker
Kevin D. Mitnick
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Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.
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Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.
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For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.
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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
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The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
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The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
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I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
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My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.
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I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.
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No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
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I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.
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When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.
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Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems
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I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.
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You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.
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My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
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I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.
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I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.
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So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.
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I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
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