"Four pals clean up in Vegas with a pocket-sized computer. A bored Canadian teen gains access to the wire transfers section of a major Southern bank.
A couple of kids are recruited to hack into Lockheed Martin and the Defense Information System Network by a terrorist with ties to Osama bin Laden." Kevin Mitnick, whose own exploits have made him a veritable hacker's hero, shares more than a dozen true stories of cyber-invasions - devilishly ingenious, highly effective schemes that kick up your pulse rate even as you marvel at their sheer audacity.
Each is followed by Mitnick's expert analysis of how the attack could have been prevented. And he is uniquely qualified to recommend effective security measures. Both a legend in the hacker underworld and a general in the war on cybercrime, Kevin Mitnick holds the one weapon most likely to take down the intruder - intimate knowledge of the hacker's brilliant and tenacious mind.
Chapter 1 Hacking the casinos for a million bucks
Chapter 2 When terrorists come calling
Chapter 3 The Texas prison hack
Chapter 4 Cops and robbers
Chapter 5 The Robin Hood hacker
Chapter 6 The wisdom and folly of penetration testing
Chapter 7 Of course your bank is secure - right?
Chapter 8 Your intellectual property isn't safe
Chapter 9 On the continent
Chapter 10 Social engineers - how they work and how to
stop them
Chapter 11 Short takes