Hacking: Introduction To The Greatest Hacker In World’s History.

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Hacking: Introduction To The Greatest Hacker In World’s History.

The World’s most famous hacker is presently Kevin Mitnick. Kevin Mitnick is an American computer security consultant, author, and a black hat turned white hat hacker.

He was once one of the FBI’s Most Wanted list for hacking into 40 major corporations just for the challenge. He hacked into telecommunications company just for kicks

He begins his career as a criminal. In 1981 Kevin and two friends broke into the offices of Cosmos (Computer System for Mainframe Operations) company Pacific Bell, which was a database used by most US phone companies to control logging calls. Once there they obtained the list of security keys, the combination of the doors of several branches, and manuals COSMOS system, among other things. In fact, he said the stolen by Mitnick and his friends had a value equivalent to 170,000 euros.

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In 1987 Mitnick seemed to be making a change in his life and began to live with a young woman who was taking computer classes with him at a local school. After a while, anyway, his obsession emerged ys use of numbers credit cards illegal phone led police to the apartment he shared with his girlfriend Mitnick in the village Thousand Oaks, California. Mitnick was accused of stealing software Microcorp Systems, a small Californian software company, and that same December he was sentenced to three years probation.

Kevin Mitnick

He was released and arrested, he continued like this till Feb 15, 1995, when he was later arrested by the FBI for cybercrimes and hacking.

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Mitnick, who was released in January 2000 after spending almost five years in federal prison, was paroled until January 2003, where the investigating judge in the case, Mariana Pfaelzer forbade Mitnick acceder to any type of computer, mobile phone, television, or any electronic device that could connect to the Internet, which your computer abstinence also accompanied him during the three years after their release from prison.

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