RIP Kevin Mitnick and long live his memory!
On this episode of Emerging Tech Mastery (ETM) we brought back on good friend and contributor of the show Frank Trezza, Certified Ethical Hacker and InfoSec professional.
We discuss the legacy and memory of Kevin Mitnick, one of the best hackers of all time and master, founder of social engineering.
There’s a lot of great information here so be sure to grab a pen and paper or your favorite digital medium for this one.
In addition, we cover some initial hacker tools of the trade and resources around this fascinating profession.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- Who was famous hacker Kevin Mitnick and what motivated him
- The most legendary stories like how he hacked the LA Bus System, Trolled the FBI, lived on the run and was incarcerated illegally for years
- How Kevin pioneered social engineering and used it extensively
- The pre-computing hacking subculture based on telecom called “Phreaking”
- How he hacked out of curiosity not profit like when he hacked a Cell Phone company to learn about new phone designs
- How he reverse engineered what made complex systems in society tick and how to find weaknesses in them
- About how the border of technology and magic is knowledge
- Kevin generating new identities from deceased people
- Why new easy to use hacking tools also open the door for malevolent users
- The gap in skill knowledge emerging from books and hands on experience
- A difficult truth about how the real knowledge workers are not compensated properly
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Kevin Mitnick Show Notes
- Legendary computer hacker Kevin Mitnick dies at 59 [CNN]
- KnowBe4 and the Mitnick Family Honor the Life and Legacy of Kevin Mitnick [KnowBe4]
- Remembering the World’s Greatest Hacker: Kevin Mitnick’s Legacy | Mitnick Security
- 2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly
- Free Kevin, Kevin Freed [Linux Journal]
- What is Phreaking Explained: The Art of Phone Hacking [Cyber Insight]
- Social engineering: Definition, examples, and techniques [CSO]
- What is Cybersecurity? [Tech Target]
- What is Information Security (InfoSec)? [Microsoft Security]
- Pieter Zatko (Mudge)
- Unexpected Stories From a Hacker Who Made it Inside the Government by Peiter [DEF CON 21]
- Red Teaming
- Blue Teaming [IBM]
- David Kennedy [TrustedSec]
- Ed Snowden [Biography]
- Julian Assange (Mendacs)
- The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz [Rolling Stone]
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Technology [RSS Board]
- Tsutomu Shimomura
- Takedown Movie [IMDb]
- Justin Tanner Petersen
- What is OPSEC (Operational Security)? [SANS]
- Who are Script Kiddies? [Make Use Of]
- Red Balloon Security
- Gtvhacker [Hackaday]
- Samy Kamkar [Samy.pl]
- Darren Kitchen, founder of Hak5
- Frank Trezza Twitter | LinkedIn
Hacker Tools of the Trade
Kevin’s Books
- The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
- The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers
- The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
Tools
- 793 hacking-tools on Github
- Hacking Tools (with demos) that you need to learn in 2024 [David Bombal]
- 100 Top Hacking Tools [EC-Council]
- 17 Hacker Tools in 7 Minutes – ALL Hak5 Gear
- Tour of A Hacker’s Backpack (My EDC) [Cole Kraten]
- FlipperZero
- Kali Linux | Purple
- Black Arch
- Raspberry Pi | Zero
- 100 Hacking Tools and Resources [hackerone]
Education
- What is Information Security, Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking? [ETM]
- How to Protect Yourself from Hackers and Cyber Attacks [ETM]
- Penetration Testing by Georgia Wideman [archive.org]
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework [NIST]
- Offensive Security
- SANS
- Hack The Box
