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A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Post by simg »

sersi wrote: post #83
leetrout wrote: post #24

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Dude I was called out by name in the report either right before you got there or the first one you were there. I was called out in the one where they got B's Audi keys in his office. Whole thing was so dumb. A floor full of smart monitors that they could have put a keylogger on. A plethora of physical network access and I get called out for leaving my laptop on the lock screen and going downstairs for food. And they…

How would they have been able to install a hijacked Chrome if your computer was on the lock screen?

perhaps, back in the day, when windows machines would automatically run autorun.inf if present on a cd or usb drive regardless of whether the machine was locked or not.

Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Post by thrownthatway »

skeaker wrote: post #25
mcfunley wrote: post #6

I worked at a company that had hired Mitnick as a security consultant. His report for a client that turned out to have been rife with SQL injection at the time was largely movie plot physical security stuff. Not wrong exactly, but not the center mass of the threat model they needed either. He seemed to lack systems thinking, producing a report that focused on calling out specific employees as dumb or incompetent. Cou…

In all fairness, a genuine attacker WILL be abrasive and abusive. They WILL single out employees that are gullible and exploit them. It's not pretty because a genuine attack is not pretty. Of course a simulated attack will be indecent and discourteous in nature, that is how attacks are.

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Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Post by RyJones »

georgehotz wrote: post #59

For what it's worth, I'm George Hotz, and Kevin Mitnick's books were a big influence on me. I ran into him at a party at DEFCON one year and we talked for 20 minutes before I found out who he was. Gave me a lock pick business card. Cool guy.

I enjoyed supporting you in the AllJoyn/AllSeen Alliance era. Sadly, those lessons were never learned.

Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Post by shuwix »

mcfunley wrote: post #6

I worked at a company that had hired Mitnick as a security consultant. His report for a client that turned out to have been rife with SQL injection at the time was largely movie plot physical security stuff. Not wrong exactly, but not the center mass of the threat model they needed either. He seemed to lack systems thinking, producing a report that focused on calling out specific employees as dumb or incompetent. Cou…

Dumb people are dumb. And will be. Their ability to learn from experience is almost non-existent. They are biggest security threat. Corporate structure didn't identify their mental limits and gave them way more access. So Mitnick, as outsite observer identified them and did good job.

I might say "sorry for your loss of job" .... but seriously not. You shouldn't got that job in first place.

Atleast you can brag about getting unemployed thanx to Mitnick.

Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Post by stavros »

rcbdev wrote: post #98
user_of_the_wek wrote: post #86

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Vienna waits for you

Is Vienna the place to be for security researchers in their 30s starting to doubt their life choices?

The OWASP conference is being held there next week, so in a way, yes?

Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Post by throw1234567891 »

vasco wrote: post #88
dmos62 wrote: post #87

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That's because susceptibility to attacks is a question of training. What would the goal of placing individual blame be? Shame? Drive them to seek training outside work? Further, if you periodically single out people, the organization will hate you.

Shame works for me. If I was ever the one that got sniped and my colleagues saw it I'd forever be paranoid about it. Like when my dad sat me down and told me that I couldn't keep losing hats all the time when I was a kid and that I wasn't a baby anymore and it was expensive, and that shame made me look behind me when I leave somewhere until today and stop losing stuff. Specially for security, yes, shame the personal…

Does for me, too. But not for 30 people around me. They just shut down and isolate. It’s a matter of how self-reflective one is. And who knows who’s going to exploit this to get their way.

Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Post by lukan »

stavros wrote: post #106
rcbdev wrote: post #98

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Is Vienna the place to be for security researchers in their 30s starting to doubt their life choices?

The OWASP conference is being held there next week, so in a way, yes?

But is it a good place to meet future spouses?

Because missing that that seems to be the main problem of the poster above.

Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Post by stavros »

lukan wrote: post #108
stavros wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The OWASP conference is being held there next week, so in a way, yes?

But is it a good place to meet future spouses? Because missing that that seems to be the main problem of the poster above.

Anywhere where you meet people is a good place to meet future spouses.

Re: A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Post by tmach32 »

gosub100 wrote: post #95
tmach32 wrote: post #71

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Yeah, I am shocked a little, because he wasn't a monster or something. Critique is valid, but speaking with obvious resentment and disrespect about someone who died is pretty gross. Again, unless they're, like, a _monster_.

If you're a high profile public figure, you are subject to scrutiny. Even after you pass away.

I'm not talking about scrutiny. I'm talking about crass.
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