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My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
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
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Kevin David Mitnick
The Condor
The Darkside Hacker
Kevin D. Mitnick
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Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.
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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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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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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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A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
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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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I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines.
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Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.
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The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.
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For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.
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When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.
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The human. Now you know all about your target
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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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All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.
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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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My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.
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Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.
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I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
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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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But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people.
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