The Art of Deception by Kevin D Mitnick with William L Simon. Wiley; ISBN 0-7645-4280-X
Human nature is the weakest link in any security chain. From script kiddies and phreakers playing with telecommunications to private investigators and fraudsters after your credit card number and worse…your identity.
Former FBI most wanted, ex-"hacker" Kevin Mitnick, founded an information security firm - Defensive Thinking - and now with bestselling author William Simon reveals the secrets behind the best and the worst con tricks. A euphemistic name change along the lines of "personnel to human resources" and "Windscale to Sellafield" finds us learning the ins and outs of social engineering.
Mitnick claims he was never doing anything more than social engineering to satisfy his sense of curiosity. Whether you believe him or not is irrelevant in The Art of Deception he reveals the secrets everyone who relies on information - and that's basically all of us - should know.
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