Kevin Mitnick

Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1963) is one of the most famous criminal hackers to be jailed. He was arrested by the FBI on February 15, 1995. Mitnick was convicted of wire fraud and of breaking into the computer systems of Fujitsu, Motorola, Nokia, and Sun Microsystems. He 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. During his supervised release, which ended in 2003, he was restricted from using any technology other than a landline telephone.

Social Engineering

Although often portrayed as a technical expert, most of Mitnick's attacks were based on social engineering rather than technical exploits discovered by Mitnick.

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Mitnick discovered a large number of security vulnerabilities in the OpenVMS operating system by getting access to the voice mail system of security researchers at DEC.

Related Topics:
OpenVMS - DEC

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