Kevin Mitnick is a young man born in America, August 1963, this young man commonly known as a legendary hacker. Family kevin is not the person is, so familiar with computers and gain competence in RadioShack stores and libraries general where he used to spend time. But the early story of Kevin Mitnick is not a good story, at the age of 17 years Kevin has begun to feel the cold steel bars due to hacking the computer COSMOS (Computer System Operation Mainstrem) owned telephone company Pacific Bell in Los Angeles, which is a central database of American phone .
Jailed The Condor does not make it [ID that is used Kevin Mitnick] deterrent. Then in 1983 he was accused of breaking into the security system via a terminal PENTAGON use ARPANet USC campus, and again Condor must feel the cold prison walls.
Once free, kevin looking for another life and disappear from the world of hackers. But this did not last long, because in 1987 he once again had to deal with the authorities. He allegedly infiltrated a company Santa Cruz Organization, a software company engaged in the Unix operating system.
In the case of The Condor got indictments unfavorable action and return to jail for 3 years. After his release, Mitnick repeated habits and dealing with the authorities due to burglary and hijacking software that is owned by Digital Equipment Corporation's VMS operating system.
In this case Mitnick did not do it himself, he "duet" with his friend Lenny Cicicco and was sentenced to jail for 1 year and received the title of his lawyers ' addiction on a computer that can not be stopped '.
After his release, Mitnick tried mejalani return to normal life and work at a UK mailing list company in Las Vegas. But while working at the company, Mitnick is suspected by the FBI computer system ruffled Detective Tel Tec, which is a company where Mitnick worked. And finally make The Condor back into The Most Wanted Hacker or the FBI's fugitive number 1.
Mitnick must undergo nomadic life, moving from one town to another, and became a fugitive during the Mitnick broke into several companies such as Fujitsu, Motorola, Nokia, and Sun Microsystems. In February 1995, Mitnick step stopped by the FBI, all of it due to FBI's efforts and the help of a hacker who is also a victim of The Condor, namely Tsutomu Shimomura.
Mitnick was caught due to his error using the storage service from the account of someone who dibobolnya and inform the owner of the service account that the account was over quota. Before the arrest, Mitnick was tracking behind the person being pursued, but at the same time the FBI became "guests" at the house uninvited fugitives Mitnick.
In addition to the FBI Most Wanted, Mitnick was also given the title by The Discovery title of "Hall of Fame of Hackers", because besides being a software hacker he is also known as the Hardware Hacker. And also Mitnick has a good ability to Social Engineering, so he managed to foist its victims. Mitnick Over 4 years in prison, without legal certainty, without submission to the court, but all of a sudden in 2000, Mitnick was free on parole, with records held computers is prohibited.
Mitnick After 2 years of liberation, then he is allowed to use a computer but no Internet network. And a year later after it is in 2003 then allowed to use internet access for the first time since he was jailed.
Currently Mitnick already live a normal life, he published a book on security and the book was instantly successful release. He also founded a security consulting firm in kevinmitnick.com site.
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