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Mitnick: Security Not about Technology
renai42 writes "Companies eager to tighten up their information security perimeters should focus not on technology but on teaching their employees how to say 'no', ex-hacker done good Kevin Mitnick told a full house at Toshiba's MobileXchange conference in Melbourne yesterday. 'We can't expect our employees to be human lie detectors,' Mitnick said. 'One of the most difficult challenges in corporate cultures is getting people to modify their politeness norms.'"
Just say NO!
oh wait..nevermind..its 2005
and in other news... "reformed serial rapist teaches women to 'just say no'"
---- I was woken up this morning by a face full of fur. Damn cat thought my head made a good pillow.
...you can't go wrong with a Mitnick story.
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Or tell people like Paris Hilton not to base their security question on their well known dog. Or to comply after receiving warnings that your security question is insecure.
Has not yet said "no"... actually hasn't been asked yet either!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Just wait until he gets to Doom 3.
"Crap, it's dark!"
If you need to log in, crack the password yourself first :P
oh wait .. never mind...
sulli
RTFJ.
... my brain hurts now!
offer is only valid with purchase of Kevin of equal or lesser size
does this count?
bah!*@%!
"Hi, I'm calling from tech support, I need your fingerprint and iris scan, so could you please chop off your index finger, gouge your left eye out, and send them to me please? That's great thanks."
Limit: One per customer.
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
mmm does anyone have a link??? =oP
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Actually, I think this was a case of social engineering. He actually was able to convince the crowd that security and technology are unrelated.
Mitnick, you are a clever one.
Simple, don't tell the (l)users their passwords in the first place. Do I have to do all the thinking round here?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
12 seconds later, my password is 'fluffy'...
Geez, I said I was sorry! You didn't have to give everyone my password.
Isn't this what (ex)hackers have been telling the IT industry all along?
Yeah, but for some reason nobody ever believes them, and I think I know why.
boss: "So, you're a computer geek hacker-type, eh?"
ex-hacker: "Yes."
boss: "And what you want to teach us is..."
ex-hacker: "How to relate to people."
boss: *laugh* *chortle* *door slam in face*
Ohhh so your the jack ass that made me wait out in the rain when I forgot my badge.
Your on my list now buddy!
Technology, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
Ah, nice try. Three-headed monkey. Fool me once, shame on--shame on you. Fool me--you can't get fooled again.
(three-headed monkey dances by)
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. --Isaac Bashevis Singer
Kevin is intellectually tenacious. If he wants something, usually knowledge about the inner working of something or some secret. His will not give up until he learns what he wants to know.
What Kevin has produced is a comprehensive disclosure of the techniques and methodologies that people with hyper-curiosity use to get at YOUR secrets.
Now little man, goto the book store and buy a copy of "The Art of Deception" by Mr. Mitnick (to you) and if you read it through to the end, you will find my real name listed in the acknowledgements.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
And a paperclip named Clippy can't make a document, but it WILL help make one.
I once interviewed for an IT position at Goodwill. One of the interviewers asked me if I would have trouble dealing with mentally disadvantaged people as I might occasionally need to work with some of their clients. I told him that I'd not had any problems working with sales people which amounted to the same thing. He literally fell out of his chair laughing. When he could breathe somewhat normally again, he said if it was up to him I'd have the job right then.
I didn't get the job because the person who recommended me was on their way out and didn't know it yet. They were worried I'd cause problems out of anger over my friend. Politics, and I wasn't even hired yet!