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Mitnick Speaks About Hacking
Rob_Warwick writes "I've just posted a one on one interview with Kevin Mitnick on Applefritter. In just less than 20 minutes, we take a look at who generally gets targeted by social engineering schemes, and how social engineering can assist in making a technical exploit work. Mitnick speaks about which industries are at highest risk from social enginerering, and what types of workers are generally easier to talk into doing something for you. Kevin also talks about who his heroes were when getting into phreaking and computers, as well as a humbling moment when he was on the recieving end of some social engineering. The HOPE keynotes for both Kevin and The Woz are also available for download."
In just less than 20 minutes, we take a look at who generally gets targeted by social engineering schemes,
answer: people with passwords
and how social engineering can assist in making a technical exploit work.
answer: get people with passwords to tell you their passwords
Did anybody time me?
not sure if this crappy because of the 16 kbps quality or the fact that the interviewer sounds like mushmouth from the Fat Albert cartoon after doing a gram of cocaine.
to your Slashdot comments:
* Mis-spell your Subject line.
* Use the unit milligram (mg) instead of megabyte (MB).
He sounds like a duck on cocaine. It isn't entirely his fault, as the recording quality is so bad (unless he's responsible for that as well).
... that could social-engineer Kevin into giving me the transcript
I'm sorry, maybe prison messes you up, but he should know better.
what is freedom good for if you cannot use a computer? Getting out of "Pick up the soap" situations perhaps?
This guy doing the interview should have slowed down and taken his retainer out.
Errr...heroes is the plural, not heros.
Talking of which, isn't IE a great cracker tool? All those lovely security holes built in, just waiting to compromise someone's machine. All we need to do now is convince lots of important people to install it on their PCs and the world is ours!
Ohhhh.... hang on, I just realised something...
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
Don't you know that the correct way to refer to someone who breaks into security of systems is to make a derogatory comment about his Caucasian ethnicity?
I heard he wrote this great malloc implementation...
Hah, the accent previously chided as sounding 'like mushmouth after a gram of coke' is infact Canadian.
I love it.
At least this time there won't be any snide "RTFA" posts. They'd have to be "LTTFMP3" posts instead!
You must think in Russian.