Kevin Mitnick
Kevin Mitnick
Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1963) is a computer security consultant and writer. In the second half of the 20th century, he was found guilty of various computer and communications related crimes. At the time of his arrest, he was the most wanted computer criminal in America. [1]
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Early life [ edit ]
At the age of 12, Mitnick defeated the punchcard system of ticketing in Los Angeles buses via social engineering. This happened when a friendly bus driver told him about the shop selling a punching machine and told that he could take an empty ticket from the garbage and use them to roam anywhere in Greater LA . Social engineering became the main weapon for receiving information such as user name, password and modem phone numbers. [2]
When he was in high school, "Rirm Puk" [ Please add a quote ] told him the method of phone freaking, it was a method of manipulating telephone calls. Using it often used to call long distance calls. He also became proficient in using non-commercial radio, which he used to allegedly use in the unauthorized use of the speaker system of nearby fast food restaurants.
Computer Cracking [ edit ]
Mitnick had unauthorized rights on her first computer network at the age of 16, 1979, when a friend of her gave her the phone number of the arch. It was a computer system used by Digital Equipment Corporation to create its RSTS / E (operating system software) software. He opened the computer network of DEC and copied DEC's computer software. He was convicted and convicted in 1988 for this crime. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison for this crime and he was surrendered outside his prison for the next 3 years. When the surveillance outside his prison was about to expire, he hacked a voice mail computer called Pacific Bull. After the arrest warrant got out, Mitnick was standing and being a runaway for the next two and a half years.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, when Mitnick was a fugitive, he got unauthorized rights on several computer networks. He used the clone cell phone to hide his hideout and stole it with other thieves as well as duplicate some of the biggest cell phones and computer companies in the country's expensive trademarked software. Mitnick stole computer passwords, changed computer networks, and stole people's passwords and read their private mail too. Mitnick was arrested in February 1995 in North Carolina. He got many cloned cell phones, more than 100 clone phone passwords and many false identities. [3]
Certified criminal acts [ edit ]
- To use the Los Angeles bus transit system for free ride [4]
- To avoid FBI ii [5]
- To see VMS by hacking the DEC system (According to reports, DAC had to pay $ 160,000 to recover the system) [4] [5]
- To win a condition, to get the full administrator privileges of an IBM mini computer at a computer studio center in Los Angeles, [4]
- To hack Motorola , NEC , Nokia , Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Simmons systems. [5]
Alleged criminal acts [ edit ]
- To steal a computer manual from a Pacific bull telephone switching center in Los Angeles.
- To read e-mails of computer security officers of MCI Communications and Digital [6]
- Wiretape to California DMV [6]
- To make free cell phone calls [7]
- To hack the site of Santa Cruz Operation, Pacific Bull, FBI, Pentagon , Novell, California Department of Motor Vehicles, University of South California and Los Angeles Unified School District Systems.
- According to John Markoff [6] , he wiretapped the FBI agents, although Kevin Mitnick denied this. [8]
Arrest, crime, and imprisonment [ edit ]
In a federal offense of hacking the computer for 2.5 years, FBI arrested Mitnick on February 15, 1995 after following a lot of chase following his apartment from Raleigh, North Carolina. [9] . The search for Mitnick was widely publicized.
In 1999, Mitnick accepted the case of 4 telegram related deceptions, 2 computer related deceptions and a telegram communicable breakdown. He did this during a plea agreement in the United States District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. He was sentenced to 46 months in prison and the next 22 months sentence was heard in 1989 for violating the rules in the period of surveillance after computer fraud. During the period of surveillance, he acknowledged the violation of rules by hacking PacBail voice mail and other systems and by sharing with other known computer hackers. In this case, the name of the hacker and fellow defendant was Luis de Pyini.
Mitnick spent five years in prison - four and a half years of solitary confinement during the trial - because according to Mitnick, law enforcement officials had given a judge the assurance that he would start a molecular war by saying " Has the ability ". [10] She was released from prison on January 21, 2000. At the start of the day of surveillance, which ended on January 21, 2003, Mitnick was barred from using any other means of communication other than landline. Mitnick filed a lawsuit against this decision, in which at the end Mitnick won and allowed to use the Internet.
Mitnick now runs Mitnick Security Consultation LLC, a computer security consulting center.
Controversy [ edit ]
Although Mitnick is illegally blamed for copying software and many fake identification documents were recovered from him but still, his supporters argued that his sentence was excessive. In his 2002 book, The Art of Deception , Mitnick has written that he misused the computer only through passwords and code that he had learned through social engineering. He claims that he has not used software programs or hacking tools to search for a password or for phone security or otherwise using the computer.
Two books have attempted to investigate the charges against Kevin: The Takedown of Jon Merkoff and Sutomu Shimomura and The Fugitive Games of Jonathan Littman . Littman has four accusations:
- Markoff was treated unfairly as a journalist because when he covered Mitnick's case for New York Times, without covering Kevin's interview, the whole case covered only official claims and rumors.
- Strict lawsuit against Mitnick by the government
- Extending the case of mainstream media related to Mitnick
- Shimomura's relationship with this case is unclear or its suspicious validity
The subject of the next controversy was the film based on the book of John Markoff and Shimomura, but on which Littman alleged that some parts of the film are based on his book and he was not allowed for it.
The case against Mitnick has tested the new law to deal with computer crimes and it has increased public awareness on security issues related to computer networks. But still there is a dispute, and today even Mitnick is seen as an example of the world's biggest criminal in the computer.
Mitnick's supporters believe that many charges against him are false [11] and are not based on actual losses. [12]
Communication medium [ edit ]
In 2000, Skeet Ulrich and Russell Wong presented the character of Kevin Mitnick and Situu Shimomura under the song " Take Down ", based on John Markoff and Sutomu Shimomura's book Takedown . The DVD of this movie was released in September 2004. [13]
In response to the corporate-based DoCoMantry movie track down , Mitnick's fans together formed another doomantari film Freedom Downtime .
Mitnick William Williamson Together with Simon, two books on computer security are written:
- The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Explosives of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers [14]
- The Art of Deception [15]
He and his co-authors are currently writing Kevin's autobiography.
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