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Take a wild joyride from his prankster beginnings to eluding the fbi and broking into security systems around the globe just to prove he could, to leading one of the most elite niche security teams in the world. The real stories behind the exploits of hackers, intruders and deceivers. Although security awareness training remains a critical protection against the highestvolume forms of social engineering attacks, its time for organizations to look beyond basic user awareness, she writes. Kevin mitnickone of the most famous social engineers in the worldpopularized the term social engineering. Part of the book is composed of real stories, and examples of how social. Kevin david mitnick born august 6, 1963 is an american computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker, best known for his highprofile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communicationsrelated crimes mitnick s pursuit, arrest, trial, and sentence along with the associated journalism, books, and films were all controversial. The art of deception is a book by kevin mitnick that covers the art of social engineering. He called the ceo and posed as a fundraiser from a cancer charity the ceo had dealt with in the past. Kevin mitnick is the most famous computer hacker of our time.
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