Kevin Mitnick
Kevin Mitnick
Kevin David Mitnickis an American computer security consultant, author and hacker, best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and later five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 August 1963
CountryUnited States of America
numbers people needs
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.
garbage-cans names numbers
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
home average viruses
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.
hackers company retired
I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.
games able cracks
I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game.
loss manhattan down-and
Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.
engineering able social
Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.
writing adventure challenges
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.
jobs apples ears
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
boys government done
I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.
technology thinking people
Some people think technology has the answers.
loss cards banking
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.
target humans knows
The human. Now you know all about your target
break found holes
I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.