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  • Better security not about tech: Mitnick

    Companies eager to tighten up their information security perimeters should focus not on technology but on teaching their employees how to say 'no', says ex-hacker done good Kevin Mitnick.

  • The price tag for Mitnick's attack

    Kevin Mitnick plagued the corporate world with his chicanery, forcing administrators to work long hours while tracking his movements and securing their networks. Meanwhile he siphoned off their proprietary source code without so much as a "thank you."

  • Mitnick: 'I was never a malicious person'

    Kevin Mitnick and his attorneys are asking a U.S. Federal Judge to unseal a court filing that they claim proves the government was guilty of misconduct while building its case against the hacker. The goal, says Mitnick in a rare interview, is to clear his name.

  • Schindler heads toward life post-Mitnick

    LOS ANGELES -- Assistant U.S. Attorney David Schindler's drab 11th-floor office at the federal courthouse belies his status as the man who put the most notorious hackers of the '90s behind bars

  • The new security threats

    Three out of four businesses are wide open to attack. Is your company next? Learn about the top new Internet security threats—and how to protect your organisation.

Features and Case Studies (2)

  • Kevin Mitnick on hacking's evolution

    To many, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with "notorious hacker." We talk to him about software security, the evolution of hacking and social engineering, and law enforcement's action against hacking.

  • Hackers: Under the hood

    Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector.
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    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
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    Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
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