TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Kevin Mitnick Recalled

Re: Kevin Mitnick Recalled

Al Dykes (adykes@panix.com)
12 Dec 2004 17:43:32 -0500

In article <telecom23.594.16@telecom-digest.org>, Danny Burstein
<dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

> In <telecom23.593.6@telecom-digest.org> Lisa Minter
> <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com> writes:

>> Rummaging around through the Telecom Archives, I found two interesting
>> items on Kevin Mitnick. I wonder if anyone knows what he has been
>> doing since 1997 or whenever he got out of prison.

> From a recent post I made to another group:

>Subject: Mitnick using his powers for Good. Demonstrates Windows probs

> "Surfing the Web has never been more risky.

> "Simply connecting to the Internet -- and doing nothing else --
> exposes your PC to non-stop, automated break-in attempts by intruders
> looking to take control of your machine surreptitiously.

> "While most break-in tries fail, an unprotected PC can get hijacked
> within minutes of accessing the Internet.

> "'It's a hostile environment out there,' says tech security consultant
> Kevin Mitnick, who served five years in prison for breaking into
> corporate computer systems in the mid-1990s. "Attackers have become
> extremely indiscriminate."

> [ snippety snip ]

> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/hacking/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.htm

> dannyb@panix.com

I found Mitnick's book _The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human
Element of Security_ a good presentation on Social Engineering, useful
to give clueless technical people an idea as to just how sneaky a con
artist can be and how difficult it can be to make a large organization
a hard target.

a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m

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