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Kevin Davis Mitnich who was born on August 6, 1963, is a U.S computer security expert, an author, and a convicted and renowned hacker.
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He made use of live demonstrations for making a profound illustration of how cyber victims make use of the employee’s trust through social engineering
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Mitnick made of phone tracking which made him a super hacker at the tender age of 17 years.
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In high school, he had been questioned by the computer instructor to make writing a program in the Fortran language, where he got the knowledge to find 100 Fibonacci numerics
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Mitnick’s arrest, trial, and sentencing had been related to journalism, films, and book writing which were all controversial
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He runs the security firm, Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC.
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An active advisory board member, Mitnick was positioned at Zimperium which is a firm that develops intrusion prevention structural plans. Upon arrest in 1995 he had been charged with wire fraud (14 times), ownership of unauthorized accessories and devices (8 times),
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interception of the wire or electronic communication, illegal accessing to federal government computer systems, and also causing computer damage. According to Oliver & Adriane (10),
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he was guilty of wiring fraud (4 counts), two counts of computer fraud, and a single account of illicit intercepting of a wire communication