Kevin Mitnick
“Condor”The World’s Most Wanted Hacker
Social engineering, and the manhunt that followed it
Rating
98Impact score
Domains
Social engineeringPhone phreakingTelecom
Scouting report
Talked his way into more networks than he ever broke into. A teenage phone phreak who became the FBI’s most-wanted hacker, was captured in 1995, served five years, and came out the other side as a security consultant and author of The Art of Deception. He made the industry admit the obvious: the person on the phone is the vulnerability.
Curator’s note
The card that defines the set. Nobody argues about this one.
Sources
- 01Kevin Mitnick en.wikipedia.org
- 02Takedown — the 1995 arrest, as told by Markoff and Shimomura en.wikipedia.org