The Art Of Intrusion : The Real Stories Behind The Exploits Of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers

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Hacker extraordinaire Kevin Mitnick delivers the explosive encore to his bestselling The Art of DeceptionKevin 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 machinesTwo teenagers who were persuaded by terrorists to hack into the Lockheed Martin computer systemsTwo convicts who joined forces to become hackers inside a Texas prisonA "Robin Hood" hacker who penetrated the computer systems of many prominent companies-andthen told them how he gained accessWith 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.

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THE ART OF INTRUSION The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers Kevin D. Mitnick William L. Simon THE ART OF INTRUSION The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers THE ART OF INTRUSION The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers Kevin D. Mitnick William L. Simon Vice President & Executive Group Publisher: Richard Swadley Vice President and Executive Publisher: Bob Ipsen Vice President and Publisher: Joseph B. Wikert Executive Acquisitions Editor: Carol Long Development Editors: Emilie Herman, Kevin Shafer Editorial Manager: Kathryn Malm Bourgoine Senior Production Editor: Angela Smith Project Coordinator: April Farling Copy Editor: Joanne Slike Interior Design: Kathie S. Rickard Text Design & Composition: Wiley Composition Services Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2005 by Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, (317) 572-3447, fax (317) 572-4355, e-mail: [email protected] Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: The publisher and the author make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this work and specifically disclaim all warranties, including without limitation
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