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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."
Finally! After years of trying!
FIRST POST BABY!!!!
Guess it's not all bad being called into work on a Sunday.
The one that got me the worst: When my father-in-law was dying, the hospital called. One of their questions was, did we want them to take heroic measures. I thought the nurse was kidding. Of course we didn't want them to take heroic measures. I later learned that 'heroic' doesn't mean the same to a nurse as it does to a normal person. My father-in-law would have died anyway but I sure felt like I had been socially engineered.
Not to put too fine a point on it but social engineering is lying and deception.
Hi:
Salesmen try that all the time. Too lazy to look up the spelling of a word even if you have MS Office installed AND are connected to the internet? Ask for help.
Need a 40 word description of a product even if you've been selling the product for months? Put in a request to the technical writer and slug it hot with CCs to half the company phrased in such a way as though this was something the TW had promised to do.
Grrr.
It's "heros" not "hero's". Why do people insist on using an apostrophe before an s indicating plurality, no possesion?
- Hello. Is Homer there?
- Homer who?
- Homer Sexual
- Wait one second, Let me (to the bar) Homer Sexual. Ah, come on, one of you guys has gotta be Homer Sexual.
why not interview Bart?
i for one welcome our new haxor primadonna
I bet many people were against Roman empire at 0-100 years but only one named "Jesus" by people became prophet.
to figure what he did, you must read some books or news stories.
He did GOOD imho!
its 'overrated' moron moderator, not offtopic.
like I care, anyway...
http://www.deadkennedysnews.com/
Dead Kennedys Defrauded by Jello Biafra
Dead Kennedys were underpaid royalties by Alternative Tentacles Records. Though some find it hard to believe, when Jello Biafra was told of this underpayment, he said, "do not tell the band," the start of the fraud. Later, after a whistle-blower at the label informed the band that royalties were owed them, Biafra refused to compensate the band without a court order, thus causing the lawsuit.
Biafra made a mistake and did something wrong and was caught. He intentionally covered up royalties owed to Dead Kennedys and deliberately misled East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride and D.H. Peligro. He unfortunately fell victim to a conflict of interest and used the income to promote his solo career and label.
It was proven to be true that "Alternative Tentacles Records engaged in fraudulent conduct" and that Jello Biafra "breached his contractual and fiduciary obligations to plaintiff [Dead Kennedys]." It was also shown "by clear and convincing evidence" that Biafra and Alternative Tentacles were "guilty of malice, oppression and fraud" in committing these acts. Malice was defined as "conduct which is intended to cause injury or despicable conduct which is carried with a willful and conscious disregard for the rights of others."
Do not mod me up. This has been a test of the emergency bookmarking system. This is only a test.
-Adam