Ya, it's a nice book by the master himself :) It shows that no matter
whatever security we build using software/hardware the weakest link will
always be the HUMAN FACTOR.
Regards,
Arun
-----Original Message-----
From: Serg Belokamen [mailto:serg@fuzzyit.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:36 PM
To: webappsec@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Hacking/security in main-stream media
There is also a book by Kevin Mitnick (and others imho) called The Art
Of Deception, talking about social engineering.
Serg
Arun Vishwanathan wrote:
Kevin Mitnick was caught by this guy called Tsutomu Shimomura. There is
a book called "Takedown" by John Markoff which describes the whole
episode. Nice read.
Regards,
Arun
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Draeger [mailto:fdraeger@csc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:00 PM
To: Chacon, Oscar
Cc: Edward Miller; jasonmerriman11@aol.com; 'Levenglick, Jeff'; Mike
Andrews; webappsec@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Hacking/security in main-stream media
There is a German TV movie about this story - from the hacker's view.
The name is "23" : http://imdb.com/title/tt0126765/
"Chacon, Oscar"
<Oscar.Chacon To: "'Levenglick,
Jeff'" <JLevenglick@fhlbatl.com>, Edward Miller
@cnb.com>
<EMiller@tax.state.va.us>, jasonmerriman11@aol.com
cc: Mike Andrews
<mike@se.fit.edu>, webappsec@securityfocus.com
19/10/2004 17:18 Subject: RE:
Hacking/security in main-stream media
Its called The Cuckoo's Egg. My buddy was one of the guys who
investigated
and caught Kevin Mitnick, or was it Kevin Poulsen? The guy who
disappeared
was most likely killed by German/Russian intelligence.
Oscar Chacon, CISA
Vice President & Manager
Information Security
Information Services Division
City National Bank
555 South Flower Street
Los Angeles, California 90071
Telephone: 213 - 673 - 8051
Facsimile: 213 - 637 - 3915
oscar.chacon@cnb.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Levenglick, Jeff [mailto:JLevenglick@fhlbatl.com]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:08 AM
To: Edward Miller; jasonmerriman11@aol.com
Cc: Mike Andrews; webappsec@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Hacking/security in main-stream media
This one might be the oldest that I know of.
I can't really remember the movie name. (its on the tip of my
tongue...)
(something egg?)
It is based on the real story of a student who discovers that the
school
was
being
used as a 'pass thru' to US military computers. I think it was back in
the
70's.
I remember bits:
1 - He hooked up line printers to each phone line to trace the person
and
print what he
was doing.
2 - He had each operator on a call and listened as each one traced and
then
call the next operator.
3- They traced it to Germany. (If I remember correctly?)
4 - I think it was 3 hackers. 2 of them disappeared and the last one,
in a
panic, spilled the beans. (He insisted that the govt was covering
everything
up and killed his friends)
Jeffrey
-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Miller [mailto:EMiller@tax.state.va.us]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 05:12 PM
To: jasonmerriman11@aol.com
Cc: Mike Andrews; webappsec@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Hacking/security in main-stream media
how about Minority Report - biometric access control by retina scan
"Jason Merriman"
<jasonmerriman11@
aol.com>
To
"Mike Andrews" <mike@se.fit.edu>
09/30/2004 09:46
cc
AM webappsec@securityfocus.com
Subject
Re: Hacking/security in
main-stream
Please respond to media
jasonmerriman11@a
ol.com
War Games - [Not sure yet, not managed to pickup the film]
Computer creator uses his son's name as the main password for the
system.
Hackers - [Not sure yet, not managed to pickup the film]
Characters dumpster dive to get materials which assist in accessing
systems.
Mike Andrews wrote on 9/29/2004, 4:00 PM:
A bit off the wall, but as good a place to post this as any :)
I'm writing a tutorial/courseware on security (both basic topics and
programming) and I'm looking for clips from movies or tv to
introduce
subjects - I've found that videos work well with introductions and
short
breaks to getting the audience in the right frame of mind (as well
as
getting them relaxed). So far I have the following....
Jurassic Park - insider threat (the programmer gets the system to
bypass
security while he steals the DNA/embryos)
Sneakers - Cryptography (when the team discovers it's a crypto box
they
have)
The Net - Personally identifiable information (main characters
personal
information is deleted)
War Games - [Not sure yet, not managed to pickup the film]
Hackers - [Not sure yet, not managed to pickup the film]
Any other suggestions? I'm only wanting short (5min) sections, but
I'm
willing to edit bit's out if needed.
Cheers,
Mike.
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Mike Andrews
Florida Institute of Technology
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