Take Down - A Story of USA's Most Notorious Cracker To Date.

[carey]

Take Down is the story of Kevin Mitnick. It's pretty detailed in the techniques that crackers and hackers use. Some of the exploits even look "usable".
http://www.takedown.com has more info.

[megiddo]

very interesting, but i couldn't get the link to the book to work

[Arch_Angel]

Yeah, the downloadable version of the book does not seem to be available anymore.

I have the book "Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security" written by Kevin Mitnick if anyone wants to take a read. 500 pages.

See reviews about it at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...=UTF8&v=glance

[carey]

may i have a copy?

[megiddo]

you have it in pdf? or regular paper form. and is it shareware, don't wanna have the mods coming down on us

[megiddo]

oh don't worry found the book in pdf

[Arch_Angel]

Tell you the truth, don't remember where I got it from. But it wasn't some illegal site. I think it was publicly available just like the Takedown book is.

It's in Microsoft Word format. 1.2mb.
It's a very interesting read. To hear how Kevin used social engineering to get people to give him secure information. It's funny. But I think some of these people are just stupid to talk out all that info to a stranger on the phone. lol

Carey, will send you a pm to download.

[Arch_Angel]

oh don't worry found the book in pdf

Which book you found in pdf? Takedown or Art of Deception?

[megiddo]

both, i found it in gluz

[Arch_Angel]

both, i found it in gluz

Ok, so I'm glad you found them. Hope you enjoy them. Then after you read them, let us know how you liked them. And you could give us a synopsis of the books. Because no one else has them.

*and if you didn't get the hints, I am asking you to share where you got them, if it's not too much to ask*