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  • Kevin Mitnick Web site hacked

    Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker's Web site on Sunday displayed a vulgar message.

  • Mitnick selling notorious laptops

    Friends of the convicted cybercriminal have arranged two online auctions of the notebook computers the hacker used to break into several large companies.

  • A happy new year for hacker Mitnick

    Christmas came early for notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick.

  • Council social engineering test exposes flaws

    Kingston City Council in Victoria recently conducted a social engineering experiment to see how its staff would react to a stranger trying to gain access to the server room; the exercise revealed, and helped fix, serious flaws in staff awareness.

  • Hacking outside the box

    How do you protect yourself from the smooth-talking hacker whose only "tools" might be a floppy disk and a smile?

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