Art Of Deception
Kevin D Mitnick
- 17 oktober 2003
- 9780764542800
Samenvatting:
Focusing on the human factors involved with information security, this book explains why all the firewalls and encryption protocols in the world will never be enough to stop a savvy grifter intent on rifling a corporate database or an irate employee determined to crash a system.
The worlds most celebrated hacker delivers the lowdown on todays most serious security weaknesshuman nature
"Finally someone is on to the real cause of data security breachesstupid humans
Mitnick
reveals clever tricks of the social engineering trade and shows how to fend them off."
Stephen Manes, Forbes
"A tour de force, a series of tales of how some old-fashioned blarney and high-tech skills can pry any information from anyone. As entertainment, its like reading the climaxes of a dozen complex thrillers, one after the other."
Publishers Weekly
"Mitnick provides hair-raising examples of social engineeringdisgruntled employees stealing top-secret research, smooth-talking con men acquiring data on next-generation explosives for terroristsand explains how to combat it."
Angela Gunn, Time Out New York
"He was the FBIs most-wanted hacker. But in his own eyes, Mitnick was simply a small-time con artist with an incredible memory [and] a knack for social engineering
This is Mitnicks account, complete with advice for how to protect yourself from similar attacks. I believe his story."
Simson Garfinkel, Wired