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Kevin Mitnick site defaced by hackers
News Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker's Web site on Sunday displayed a vulgar message. Online vandals, apparently operating from Pakistan, broke into the computer hosting Mitnick's...
[August 22, 2006, 9:00]
Kevin Mitnick: The great pretender
News Without the current glut of naive Web users to exploit, would-be cyber-thieves and vandals had to be somewhat more creative, and one of the most creative and infamous was Kevin Mitnick. Following his run in with law, Mitnick now puts his powers of...
[June 14, 2006, 11:40]
id Software site hacked in 'Free Kevin Mitnick' stunt
News id Software-- the games company responsible for the hugely successful PC game Quake -- today had its Web site hacked by campaigners attempting to drum up support for the release of famous hacker Kevin Mitnick.
[February 16, 1999, 15:10]
Hacker's auctions stir up controversy
News Kevin Mitnick, the infamous hacker, has found a new and controversial way to make money: auctioning his personal items online. Released in January after serving nearly five years in prison for hacking-related crimes, Mitnick is selling his prison...
[December 1, 2000, 16:22]
Vandals deface ex-hacker Mitnick's site
News Ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick is learning firsthand that online scofflaws are a fickle lot. graffiti during Mitnick's time in prison -- broke into the Web server of the former hacker's security start-up, Defensive Thinking.
[February 11, 2003, 8:10]
Mitnick calls for hackers' war stories
News Famed hacker and master social engineer Kevin Mitnick has been commissioned to write a new book following the success of his first text The Art of Deception. Fame found Kevin Mitnick when the US government made an example of him, incarcerating him...
[December 19, 2003, 9:40]
Hacker Mitnick back online
News Notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick went back online on Tuesday for the first time in nearly a decade. He also planned to visit the Web site of actor and producer Kevin Spacey, with whom Mitnick has discussed a movie deal.
[January 22, 2003, 14:50]
Hacker Mitnick's happy new year
News Christmas came early for notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. Should the eBay auctions and book royalties fail to pay his bills, Mitnick could turn to another potential money-making venture: making corporate security training films with...
[December 27, 2002, 9:34]
Exclusive: Mitnick To Plead Guilty
News Hacker Kevin Mitnick will plead guilty to computer-related crimes after more than four years in prison awaiting trial, according to CyberCrime sources. The plea is contained in a court document, or "notice", jointly filed by Mitnick's attorney and...
[March 18, 1999, 9:13]
Mitnick supporters: It's not over yet
News When imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick pleaded guilty to seven felonies last Friday -- assenting to a plea agreement that may see him released by the end of the year -- the news quickly spread to observers with very different interpretations of its...
[March 30, 1999, 11:13]
A Year Ago: The Mitnick release - Is it over?
News Come Friday, for the first time since 1995, Kevin Mitnick will be free. Nearly five years after news of his arrest blazed across the nation's headlines, hacker Kevin Mitnick will walk out of a medium security prison in Lompoc, California, early...
[January 22, 2001, 6:01]
Mitnick selling notorious laptops
News Crime may not pay, but an online auction of the two laptops used to hack major corporations could garner convicted cybercriminal Kevin Mitnick a tidy sum. Many others have expressed similar doubts about the FBI's case against Mitnick, spawning an...
[October 3, 2002, 7:36]
Hackers break into Yahoo! home
News The note demanded the release of noted hacker Kevin Mitnick, or the virus would "wreak havoc" on the Internet on Christmas Day. The subject of their demands is famed hacker Kevin Mitnick. Last year, Mitnick was indicted on charges related to an...
[December 10, 1997, 9:20]
US Report: Fugitive hacker surfaces on the Web
News Late yesterday, a Web site purporting to belong to the former hacker posted a statement in which Petersen implied that he was currently outside the United States -- and doubted that he would testify at the upcoming trial of imprisoned hacker Kevin...
[November 13, 1998, 8:49]
A Year Ago: Hackers break into Yahoo! home
News The note demanded the release of noted hacker Kevin Mitnick, or the virus would "wreak havoc" on the Internet on Christmas Day. The subject of their demands is famed hacker Kevin Mitnick. Last year, Mitnick was indicted on charges related to an...
[December 10, 1998, 10:30]
Schindler heads toward life post-Mitnick
News And Mitnick, as in Kevin Mitnick, the now-jailed hacker whose antics landed him on the FBI's most-wanted list. But a closer look at the Post-it notes tacked to those file cabinets reveals that this office isn't your ordinary bureaucratic digs...
[October 4, 1999, 8:59]
Hackers deface US Senate, challenge FBI
News According to that message, the FBI's actions have awoken a "new revolution" -- and warns the FBI to free the gH and imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick or "die. Should the Kevin Mitnick and the gH be freed?
[May 28, 1999, 8:41]
The Mitnick release: Is it over?
News Nearly five years after news of his arrest blazed across the nation's headlines, hacker Kevin Mitnick will walk out of a medium security prison in Lompoc, California, early Friday morning -- and into an uncertain future.
[January 21, 2000, 8:40]
The NASA hacker: Scapegoat or public enemy?
Talkback This sounds very familiar, stories such as Kevin Mitnick, North California University, Cisco, and NASA. I can't tell you how easy it is to confuse what is openly seen with an attempted possible threat, I remember the days of monitoring firewall log...
[April 13, 2006, 20:39]
Hacker Mitnick may sue AT&T over data breach
News After having his AT&T wireless account breached and his personal information posted on the web, famed hacker Kevin Mitnick thought the cellular service provider would compensate him for his troubles. Instead, the company informed Mitnick it plans...
[August 21, 2009, 14:50]
