Kevin Mitnick - Literature Review

 Kevin was the most elusive PC hacker expert ever. His acclaimed 'electronic joyride' made him into the FBI's most wanted name for hacking into in excess of 40 significant enterprises, just for the challenge of it (mitnicksecurity,2020). His beginnings were from childhood when his parents divorced, he has spent all his time alone duo to his mother working long shifts as a waitress. Consequently, the absence of his mother role led him to have sufficient freedom to explore the whole of Los Angeles. Thus, that was the turning point for him, portending his future in hacking. He managed to figure out how to "bust" the bus stop's security system, and get his fries free of charge, anyplace in LA. His first genuine hacking experience happened during his high school years. Therefore, he and some colleagues got familiar with "telephone phreaking," and immediately figured out how to get any data telephone organizations had on their clients. It didn't take him long to get assimilated in everything identified with phones and become as capable as some other phone organization worker(KOSTIC,2020).

At age 16, Kevin Mitnick accessed the organization of DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation). This DEC system was utilized for the advancement of an early operating system that was utilized for 16-bit minicomputers. Kevin Mitnick duplicated the entirety of the files from the system yet didn't do anything noxious with the information. All things considered, Kevin Mitnick was charged and condemned to 1 year in jail in 1988. After he escaped jail, he was on a supervised release program for three years(Jones,2019). On February 15, 1995, the FBI at long last found Kevin to his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was captured and accused of government offences identified with PC hacking, including wire fraud, which he had led for 2 and a half years. The police discovered numerous cloned cell phones and false ID with him (thefamouspeople,2020). Mitnick, at that point, 31, who had been breaking into correspondences organizations and misleading free calls since he was a young person during the 1980s, gone through five years in jail, and a year for isolation(CHUANG,2018). 

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CHUANG, T (2018) Kevin Mitnick was the FBI’s most wanted hacker in the ’90s. He was hiding in plain sight in Denver. [Online] DENVERPOST. Available from: Kevin Mitnick was the FBI’s most wanted hacker in the ’90s. He was hiding in plain sight in Denver. – The Denver Post [Accessed 30/05/21].