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Mitnick calls for hacker war stories
By Patrick Gray
ZDNet Australia
December 19, 2003, 11:05 AM PT
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Famed hacker and master social engineer Kevin Mitnick has been commissioned
to write a new book following the success of his first text
The Art of Deception.
The new book, tentatively titled The Art of
Intrusion will tell the stories of real hacks, with the names of
attackers obscured to protect them from the authorities and their victims.
Mitnick has called on retired hackers to come forward with their stories,
offering a $500 prize for the best story that makes it into the book, and a
$200 payment for all stories that make the final draft.
I'm going to tell the true stories of some of the untold most salacious
hacks in cyberspace. The sexy, the ingenious, the innovative
and the clever, he told ZDNet Australia by phone from the United States
The stories are not going to be the same attack vector or the same class
of vulnerability. I'm looking for stories that will include a variety of
attack methods exploiting physical, operational, network host, and
personnel security vulnerabilities.
