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• Mitnick's return: The hacker is back

  Kevin Mitnick, one of the world's best-known hackers, is back--with a book and a business. Now he's advising corporations on how to secure their networks.

• Mitnick signs new book deal, calls for hacker war-stories

  Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick has been commissioned to write a new book following the success of his first text "The Art of Deception".

• Commit a crime, no network time?

  A panel discussion gets combative as former cybercriminal Kevin Mitnick argues that hackers convicted of computer crimes can sometimes be trusted.

• Microsoft Hack: The world according to Mitnick

  Infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick is skeptical about some claims surrounding the Microsoft attack, including one that Microsoft itself was watching the hacker. Was there something fishy going on?

• 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.

• 'Human firewall' a crucial defence: Mitnick

  Companies can better protect their confidential information by creating an incident response department to deal with suspicious queries, said infamous ex-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?

• Sneak Preview: Kevin Mitnick's Australian address

  Legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick talks about his travel hopes for Australia, his upcoming novel, and his first Australian security conference address to be delivered by teleconference this month.

• Schoolboy hacker kills himself

  A 13-year-old American schoolboy has hanged himself just hours after being suspended for hacking into his New Jersey school district's computer system.

• What hackers can teach you about security

  He's probably the most infamous hacker of all time. Which is why we should listen when Kevin Mitnick says that traditional network security tools aren't enough to keep our information safe.

• Hacker Mitnick testifies before US Government

  In 20 years of hacking, Kevin Mitnick says he only once failed to penetrate a computer system.

• The 'homeless hacker' talks

  The past two years have been a wild ride for Adrian Lamo: The 22-year-old has publicly taken credit for tunnelling into networks belonging to Yahoo, Microsoft, Excite@Home and WorldCom.

• Mitnick teaches old hackers new tricks

  Would you trust Kevin Mitnick? Dozens of administrators, security personnel and phone operators did. That, he says, was one reason he succeeded as a hacker.

• What's your number, Kevin Mitnick?

  Elite ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick says most of the social engineering attacks using fraudulent identities that made him famous could have been stopped if his targets had just asked for his phone number.

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