Tsutomu Shimomura
The Man Who Tracked Mitnick
The 1995 pursuit and TCP sequence-prediction analysis
Rating
82Impact score
Domains
Network forensicsTCP/IP
Scouting report
Computational physicist at San Diego Supercomputer Center whose own machines were broken into on Christmas Day 1994. His analysis of the IP-spoofing and TCP sequence-prediction attack, and the cell-tracking work that followed, led federal agents to Kevin Mitnick in Raleigh in February 1995.
Curator’s note
Card 1’s opposite number. They belong in the same pack.
Sources
- 01Tsutomu Shimomura en.wikipedia.org
- 02IP address spoofing — the technique used against him en.wikipedia.org