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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.
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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The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests.
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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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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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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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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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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 think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.
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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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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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Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.
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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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My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
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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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The human. Now you know all about your target
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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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I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.
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As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
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The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.
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A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
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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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