Kevin Mitnick Helping Secure Presidential Elections In Ecuador 85
hypnosec writes "Kevin Mitnick, who was one of the most wanted computer hacker in the US at one time, is now heading a security consultancy firm – Mitnick Security Consulting, and is entrusted with the task of securing Sunday's presidential elections in Ecuador. Mitnick tweeted, '18 years ago I was busted for hacking. I do the same thing today but with full authorization. How cool is that?' His company will focus on protecting the Net Lock computer system tasked with tabulating Ecuador's elections."
Re:Mitnick is a script kiddie (Score:5, Interesting)
His attack on Shimomura, with DNS and ARP poisoning for an rhosts exploit? Not kiddie.
In fact, Mitnick has moderate to high "skills" in the standard of the c. 2000AD heyday.
His real forte? Is, was and shall always be social engineering. Really, an enviable confidence player.
Mitnick Is Up To His Same Old Tricks (Score:2, Interesting)
Mitnck is little more than a "script kiddy". Those who are not "in the know" like these Ecuadorians, have been sold a tall tale by a guy who got where he is not by hacking ability but smooth talking.
Re:Mitnick is a script kiddie (Score:5, Interesting)
The fact that he nearly single-handedly got the entire world to stop calling people "con-men" and start referring to them as enviable "social engineers" is his most staggeringly astounding accomplishment. That he now seems to have parlayed that into /actual/ social engineering is frightful.