Hacker extraordinaire Kevin Mitnick delivers the explosive encore to
his bestselling The Art of Deception
Kevin Mitnick, the world's most celebrated hacker, now devotes his life
to helping businesses and governments combat data thieves, cybervandals,
and other malicious computer intruders. In his bestselling The Art of
Deception, Mitnick presented fictionalized case studies that illustrated
how savvy computer crackers use "social engineering" to compromise even
the most technically secure computer systems. Now, in his new book,
Mitnick goes one step further, offering hair-raising stories of
real-life computer break-ins-and showing how the victims could have
prevented them. Mitnick's reputation within the hacker community gave
him unique credibility with the perpetrators of these crimes, who freely
shared their stories with him-and whose exploits Mitnick now reveals in
detail for the first time, including:
- A group of friends who won nearly a million dollars in Las Vegas by
reverse-engineering slot machines
- Two teenagers who were persuaded by terrorists to hack into the
Lockheed Martin computer systems
- Two convicts who joined forces to become hackers inside a Texas prison
- A "Robin Hood" hacker who penetrated the computer systems of many
prominent companies-andthen told them how he gained access
With riveting "you are there" descriptions of real computer break-ins,
indispensable tips on countermeasures security professionals need to
implement now, and Mitnick's own acerbic commentary on the crimes he
describes, this book is sure to reach a wide audience-and attract the
attention of both law enforcement agencies and the media.
