Ever heard about KEVIN DAVID MITNICK
COMPUTER HACKING
Kevin Mitnick, who has been called the most notorious hacker of all time, spoke before the committee. He the most talented and skilled hacker of his time. At the age of 12, Mitnick obtained information from a bus driver about where he could purchase a ticket punch for a school project and utilized unused transfer slips he had discovered in a dumpster close to the bus company garage to board any bus in the greater Los Angeles area.
When Mitnick was 16 years old, a buddy gave him the phone number for the Ark, the computer system that Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) used to create its RSTS/E operating system software, allowing him his first unauthorized access to a computer network.
In 1988, he was charged with and found guilty of a crime for hacking into DECs computer network and stealing the company's software. His punishment included three years of supervised release after serving a 12-month prison term.
Mitnick broke into the voicemail systems at Pacific Bell at the end of his restricted parole. As a result of Mitnick evading capture when an arrest warrant was issued, he spent 2.5 years on the run.
In 1995 Mitnick was arrested for stealing computer code from a number of high-tech companies including Sun Micro-systems, Nokia, and Motorola Corporation. He pled guilty, and spent almost five years in jail.
ARREST, CONVICTION, and INCARCERATION
On February 15, 1995, the FBI apprehended Mitnick after a widely reported pursuit. He was discovered in possession of numerous fake identification documents, over 100 cloned phone codes, and duplicated cell phones.
A message requesting Mitnick's release appeared on the Yahoo! website in December 1997 as a result of hacking. The message claimed that a computer worm had infected all recent visitors to Yahoo website's and that it would cause chaos on Christmas Day unless Mitnick was released. Asserting that the worm didn't exist, Yahoo! dismissed the claims as a hoax.
Mitnick was accused of wire fraud (14 charges), having illegal access devices (8 counts), intercepting wire or electronic communications, getting onto a federal computer without authorization, and harming computers.
Mitnick entered a guilty plea in 1999 to four counts of wire fraud, two counts of computer fraud, and one count of unlawful wire communication interception.
Due to his violation of the terms of his 1989 supervised release sentence for computer fraud, he received a sentence of 46 months in prison plus an additional 22 months. He confessed to hacking into Pacific Bell voicemail and other systems in violation of the restrictions of his supervised release as well as to interacting with other known computer hackers, in this case co-defendant Lewis De Payne.
In accordance with Mitnick, law enforcement officials persuaded a judge that he was capable of starting a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone, meaning that they informed the judge that he could somehow connect into the NORAD modem using a payphone from prison and speak with the modem by whistling to fire nuclear missiles. Mitnick spent five years in prison—four and a half years in pre-trial and eight months in solitary confinement.
A FCC court decided that Mitnick had undergone adequate rehabilitation in December 2001, allowing him to hold an amateur radio license that was issued by the federal government.
On January 21, 2000, he was freed. He was initially prohibited from using any other form of communication throughout his supervised release, which ended on January 21, 2003, save from a landline telephone. A specific court Son of Sam legislation variant stipulated that Mitnick would not be allowed to profit for seven years under the terms of his plea agreement from any movies or books based on his illegal behavior.
Since the year 2000, Mitnick has made money as a security consultant, speaker, and writer. He provides penetration testing services, security advice, and social engineering training to businesses and government organizations. In Las Vegas, Nevada, where he currently lives, his business Mitnick Security Consulting is situated. OFFICIAL WEBSITE
BOOKS
Mitnick is a co-author of four publications, including his autobiography and three volumes on computer security, alongside William L. Simon and Robert Vamosi.
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security (2003)
The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers (2005)
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (2011)
The Art of Invisibility (2017)
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