Kevin Mitnick Social Engineering Guru

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Kevin Mitnick was born Kevin David Mitnick born August 6, 1963 in the city of Van Nuys, California in the late 70’s; as he was growing up in his adolescence of his teenage years the computer was starting to come of age for the consumers but, not until the 80’s where they available to users? But the i.e. (main frame) have been inexistence since after the war; the technology was there but, not readily available to the public. It was used for the military and government. Kevin Mitnick parents were divorced and they lived in a lower class environment. This was to bring Kevin to look for opportunities that would lead and drive him into this this field (1) thus at the young age of 15 he was in the beginning of the social engineering circle, eagerly learning and fascinated about the new technology that was being presented, consequently he had found something that he had become good at being self-taught and furthermore he had no type of income or ways of supporting; Kevin use a make shift device that recorded the sound of money dropping in the telephone before the cell phone came into our time? And so the receiver would recognize it as proper change was used to make a call; therefore Kevin came from a lower class family and was not making ends meet; because, Kevin’s family primlary was his just his mother and she was living on a low income and budget that was difficult for them both. It was hard for her to try to work and to supervise Kevin both at the same time; she was more or less let him do as he would do as any normal teenager but, Kevin was not your typical teenager? Living on a one income family salary furthermore since being sepa...

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...to admit to mostly charges of theft and hacking into many networks. With the new life in computers he is CEO and owns he own Computer Company that searches for vulnerability’s his consulting firm is well established and clients look to him for advice and corrections of there systems

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(1) www.takedown.com/bio/mitnick.html
(2)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
(3) www.123helpme.com/kevin-mitnick-view.asp?id=159032
(4) http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LEVxYePlhThioAkntXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzZ2oxanVxBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNARjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDM3MF8x/RV=2/RE=1398320799/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cnn.com%2f2005%2fTECH%2finternet%2f10%2f07%2fkevin.mitnick.cnna%2findex.html/RK=0/RS=4h1u8UGGh4S_1I5pLJ1FO4rRCRk-

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