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	Computer hacker kevin mitnick
		Mitnick had made himself an electronic key to the computer systems so that he could enter at will; then, after stealing the data he wanted, he attempted to restore the system to its original state before the break-in.
		Mitnick pleaded guilty to one count of cellular telephone fraud, and without a trial, was sentenced to 8 months in jail and several years of probation.
		Mitnick is out of prison once again, but now if he even touches a computer or cell phone, it means a parole violation and a return to jail.
	dede.essortment.com /kevinmitnickco_rmap.htm (1951 words)

	Mitnick Testifies Against Sprint in Vice Hack Case
		Mitnick's claims seemed to inspire skepticism in the PUC's technical advisor, who asked the ex-hacker, shortly before the hearing was to break for lunch, if he could prove that he had cracked Sprint's network.
		Mitnick retook the stand and explained that he used the lunch break to visit a nearby storage locker that he'd rented on a long-term basis years ago, before his arrest.
		Mitnick's return to the hearing room with the list generated a flurry of activity at Sprint's table; Ann Pongracz, the company's general counsel, and another Sprint employee strode quickly from the room -- Pongracz already dialing on a cell phone while she walked.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/497 (1155 words)

	Kevin Mitnick - Anarchopedia
		Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1963) is one of the most famous criminal hackers to be jailed and convicted.
		Mitnick's last arrest was by the FBI on February 15, 1995 -- he was charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.
		Kevin Mitnick's criminal activities, arrest, and trial were controversial, and have caused some computer industry journalists to raise legal and ethical questions concerning the events surrounding him.
	eng.anarchopedia.org /index.php/Kevin_Mitnick (486 words)

	Free Kevin Mitnick
		Kevin has been held without bail for three years and four months pending his trial on a 25 count federal indictment, and it will likely be more than four years without bail by the time his trial actually takes place.
		Kevin is the victim of a campaign to hype his story, a campaign which has made millions of dollars for those responsible.
		Kevin is obviously being singled out to act as an example for other hackers, and the message is pretty clear so far: that the government can do as it pleases when it comes to hackers, civil rights be damned.
	www.spectacle.org /898/mitnick.html (1650 words)

	Kevin Mitnick
		Kevin David Mitnick reached adolescence in suburban Los Angeles in the late 1970s, the same time the personal computer industry was exploding beyond its hobbyist roots.
		Mitnick had become obsessed with obtaining a copy of Digital's VMS minicomputer operating system, and was trying to do so by gaining entry to the company's corporate computer network, known as Easynet.
		Mitnick, it seemed, was a tough accomplice, for even as they had been working together he had been harassing DiCicco by making fake calls to DiCicco's employer, claiming to be a Government agent and saying that DiCicco was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service.
	www.takedown.com /bio/mitnick.html (1928 words)

	Kevin Mitnick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kevin David Mitnick was convicted of wire fraud and of breaking into the computer systems of Fujitsu, Motorola, Nokia, and Sun Microsystems.
		Mitnick served five years in prison (four years of it pre-trial), 8 months of that in solitary confinement, and was released on January 21, 2000.
		Kevin Mitnick has been invited to be a speaker at many events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kevin_Mitnick (1406 words)

	Kevin Mitnick information - Search.com
		Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1963) is one of the most famous hackers to be jailed.
		Mitnick continues to claim that his treatment was unfair and has alleged that at one time he was held in solitary confinement for 8 months because his girlfriend "Suzy Thunder" told authorities Mitnick could cause a nuclear attack by whistling into a phone.
		Kevin Mitnick was a "surprise guest" in the 40th TWiT podcast when, while in Las Vegas for a conference, he ran into Steve Wozniak at a table outside a Starbucks coffee store.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Kevin_Mitnick (1115 words)

	Kevin Mitnick bares all
		Mitnick, who lives in Thousand Oaks, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, was arrested in February 1995 and held without bail for four-and-a-half years.
		Mitnick is on parole until January 2003, under what he says are the "most restrictive parole-release conditions of anyone." His parole officer has allowed him to use a cell phone (which Mitnick suspects might be used to track his whereabouts), but he is prohibited from using a computer.
		Mitnick's options are severely limited by the fact that he can't use a computer or travel outside central California.
	www.networkworld.com /news/2000/0928mitnick.html (1218 words)

	Kevin Mitnick
		Kevin Mitnick was one of the most talented hackers, and the one one most prosecuted by the state.
		The story of Mitnick's capture is described in The Hacker Takedown, starting with the discovery by security expert Tsutomu Shimomura that his computer had been hacked, and ending by tracking the incursion to a specific modem in a NETCOM.com site in Raleigh, North Carolina.
		Because Mitnick was seen to be so dangerous around any electronic network, he was held in jail without bail for four years without trial, before finally pleading guilty and accepting a five year sentence including time served, and was freed ten months later in January 2000.
	www.livinginternet.com /i/ia_hackers_mitnick.htm (318 words)

	What hackers can teach you about security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Mitnick spoke to that second person, she (perhaps not wanting to look bad) went out of her way to make sure he got the information he was looking for.
		Mitnick used it to find out who could help him, and it helped him reinforce his story with the "inside" knowledge that the primary contact was on vacation.
		Mitnick further suggests that companies adopt what he calls a "human firewall." Companies should classify and limit access to critical business documents, develop and enforce a security policy (such as assigning access rights to each user), and create an incident-response plan to handle breaches of corporate security.
	review.zdnet.com /4520-7297_16-4207959.html (1062 words)

	Kevin Mitnick — Dynamic Speakers Bureau
		Mitnick illustrates why a misplaced reliance on security technologies alone, such as firewalls, authentication devices, encryption, and intrusion detection systems are virtually ineffective against a motivated attacker using these techniques.
		Mitnick will demonstrate the tools and techniques that hackers are using everyday to compromise the security of numerous enterprises and consumers.
		Mitnick will also share specific guidance you can immediately put to use to raise the bar of organizational awareness and mitigate the risk that your wireless network will be the next stepping stone into sensitive corporate data and computing resources.
	www.dynamicspeakers.com /kevinmitnick/kevinmitnick.html (898 words)

	Kevin Mitnick: The Most Notorious Hacker
		Kevin Mitnick arriving at the federal courthouse in Raleigh, N.C. on February 17, 1995.
		Mitnick was sentenced to probation, but he quickly violated it by hacking into a local university.
		If Mitnick had received harsher sentencing in one of his prior convictions, or if it was well established that anyone convicted of illegal computer break-ins would face serious punishment, he might not have been so quick to return to hacking.
	www.webster.edu /philosophy/~umbaugh/courses/frosh/dairy/mitnick.htm (860 words)

	Kevin Mitnick to Keynote Inaugural Transaction Security Summit - Technology - RedOrbit
		Mitnick is a largely self-taught expert in exposing the vulnerabilities of complex operating systems and telecommunications devices.
		Mitnick's keynote presentation -- The Art of Deception: Are YOU in Danger of Being 'Conned?' -- he will share his perspective on the threat of "social engineering", a highly effective type of attack that exploits the human element of corporate security.
		Mitnick will illustrate why a misplaced reliance on security technologies alone, such as firewalls, authentication devices, encryption, and intrusion detection systems are virtually ineffective against a motivated attacker using these techniques.
	www.redorbit.com /news/technology/212398/kevin_mitnick_to_keynote_inaugural_transaction_security_summit/index.html (890 words)

	Kevin Mitnick Links
		How Mitnick hacked Tsutomu Shimomura with an IP Sequence Attack Despite the verbose title and the unproven assumption that Mitnick was in fact the attacker, Shimomura offers an interesting post-mortem of the attack on his system.
		Mitnick Case is Down to Dollars Wired News article by Doug Thomas, dated 7/13/1999 about the restitution Kevin will have to pay.
		Mitnick: I was never a malicious person Kevin Poulsen article on ZDNet dated 7/30/1999 about the defense motion to unseal filings which may prove the government impoperly led Kevin's "victims" to overstate their losses.
	www.albany.net /~dsissman/mitnick.html (5676 words)

	Kevin Mitnick on hacking's evolution \| Newsmakers \| CNET News.com
		To many, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with "notorious hacker." He was caught by the FBI in 1995 after a well-publicized pursuit.
		Mitnick: You can have a teenage kid who is using social engineering to get into his friend's AOL screen name or you can have a military spy using it to try to break in somewhere, and everyone else in between.
		Mitnick: When I got started, when I learned about social engineering, it was during the phone phreaking era, the predecessor to the hacking era.
	news.com.com /Kevin+Mitnick+on+hackings+evolution/2008-1029_3-5932141.html (787 words)

	Mitnick speaks! - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kevin Mitnick is the most famous hacker in history.
		Kevin Mitnick is a recreational hacker with a compulsive-obsessive relationship to information.
		Mitnick: When I read about myself in the media even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick.
	www.forbes.com /1999/04/05/feat.html (1009 words)

	CNN.com - A convicted hacker debunks some myths - Oct 7, 2005
		MITNICK: [The claims] that I wiretapped the FBI or something like that were something out of a movie like "War Games" or "Enemy of the State" or something.
		MITNICK: I did a study USA Today was involved with and another marketing firm in San Francisco was involved with within the last year, and we set up a honeypot network, which was six different networks running various different operating systems.
		MITNICK: 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.
	www.cnn.com /2005/TECH/internet/10/07/kevin.mitnick.cnna/index.html (1663 words)

	CNN - The trials of Kevin Mitnick - March 18, 1999
		Mitnick pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in a low-security prison and three years of probation.
		Mitnick eventually took a job with a computer security firm, but was accused of violating the terms of his probation by hacking into voice mail systems at Pacific Bell in 1991.
		Mitnick's defenders have maintained he was harmless, a hacker for whom the challenge was intellectual and technological.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/mitnick.background (1673 words)

	Kevin Mitnick Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Prison; Computer Hacker Ordered to Pay Restitution to Victim Companies ...
		Kevin Mitnick, who pleaded guilty to a series of federal offenses related to a 2½-year computer hacking spree, was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison, United States Attorney Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced.
		Mitnick, 37, pleaded guilty in March to four counts of wire fraud, two counts of computer fraud and one count of illegally intercepting a wire communication.
		Mitnick was previously sentenced by Judge Pfaelzer to an additional 22 months in prison, this for possessing cloned cellular phones when he was arrested in North Carolina in 1995 and for violating terms of his supervised release imposed after being convicted of an unrelated computer fraud in 1989.
	www.usdoj.gov /criminal/cybercrime/mitnick.htm (857 words)

	PROFILE / Kevin Mitnick / Former hacker now signs autographs for fans / From hacker to prisoner, and now to celebrity
		Mitnick, the world's most notorious hacker, who led federal agents on an electronic manhunt and then spent five years in prison for breaking into corporate and government computer systems, is now one of the tech world's biggest celebrities.
		The fact Mitnick has a publicity agent tends to get tech industry folks rolling their eyes -- "I thought it was a little over the top," commented one public relations person who had to negotiate with the agent to arrange an RSA appearance.
		Mitnick told how, while on the lam in 1994, he worked as a technician at a Denver law firm, which was handy because it gave him access to a legal library where he could research his situation after work.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/21/BU280396.DTL&type=tech (1096 words)

	Kevin Mitnick has little sympathy for Nasa hacker - Malware - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
		Kevin Mitnick, perhaps the world's most famous convicted computer hacker, has broken ranks with a number of his former peers to say he has little sympathy for Gary McKinnon - the UK hacker who currently faces extradition to the US.
		Although Mitnick, who spent five years in prison following his arrest and subsequent conviction in 1995 for hacking into the systems of major companies, will have a good idea what conditions could await McKinnon if imprisoned in the US, he has clearly given little thought to the Brit's plight.
		Kevin Mitnick is correct; Gary McKinnon could be p...
	software.silicon.com /malware/0,3800003100,39159576,00.htm (543 words)

	Salon Technology \| Kevin Mitnick supporters plan rallies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Since his 1995 arrest for wire and computer fraud, famed hacker Kevin Mitnick has been behind bars.
		But on Friday, demonstrators in 15 U.S. cities and Moscow plan to protest what they see as the unjust treatment of Mitnick and ask for his parole to a halfway house.
		Mitnick's malice, Shimomura's chivalry Three books on the celebrated hacker case debunk one another's myths.
	www.salon.com /tech/log/1999/06/04/mitnick/index.html (346 words)

	Paranormal Radio Talk Featuring Kevin Mitnick The Art of Deception.
		With more than fifteen years of experience in exploring computer security, Kevin Mitnick is a largely self-taught expert in exposing the vulnerabilities of complex operating systems and telecommunications devices.
		In building this body of knowledge, Kevin gained unauthorized access to computer systems at some of the largest corporations on the planet and penetrated some of the most resilient computer systems ever developed.
		Kevin has also keynoted at numerous industry events most recently at Giga Information Group's Infrastructures for E-Business Conference, the Software Developers Expo 2000 Conference, and was a panel participant at the Global Tech Summit hosted by the Business Software Alliance.
	www.psitalk.com /mitnick.html (272 words)

	Mitnick Turns Gamekeeper - Technology News by TechWeb
		Mitnick, who was released from prison earlier this year after nearly five years there, offered tips on information security to IT professionals at the Giga Information Group Infrastructures for E-Business conference, held here last month.
		Mitnick offered insight into the hacker mindset, and it was none too comforting: "The more secure you make your systems, the more it attracts them." Hackers are driven by a curiosity to explore the network and to obtain "forbidden knowledge," he said.
		Mitnick was accused of causing millions of dollars in damage to technology companies, including Motorola, and was imprisoned after a three-year FBI manhunt that ended in 1995.
	www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB20001030S0023 (821 words)

	Wired News: Live on the Web: Kevin Mitnick
		Mitnick, once labeled "the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history," hadn't surfed the Web since 1995, when he was arrested for breaking into the networks of software and phone companies.
		Freed in January 2000, Mitnick's probation forbade him from connecting to the Internet or sending e-mail, although he was allowed to use unconnected computers, cell phones and his ham radio under the strict supervision of his parole officer.
		Mitnick planned to send his first e-mail to Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who is running for president.
	www.wired.com /news/infostructure/0,1377,57338,00.html (750 words)

	Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC
		Kevin Mitnick sits down for a short interview to discuss some of the issues your company should be aware of.
		Founded by Kevin Mitnick, Mitnick Security Consulting offers a comprehensive range of services to help businesses protect their valuable assets.
		Using his learned knowledge of computer and security vulnerabilities along with countless contacts in the field, founder Kevin Mitnick has a unique perspective on how information security is truly achieved and can quickly show where the security holes are.
	www.kevinmitnick.com (390 words)

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