A Year Ago: The Mitnick Release - Is It Over?
News The FBI captured him on February 15, 1995, when computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura suffered an attack on his machine, and responded by tracking Mitnick to his hideout in Raleigh, North Carolina.
[January 22, 2001, 6:01]
Intrusion Detection For The Millenium
White Papers It was in this manner, for example, that security guru Tsutomu Shimomura spotted the clues that eventually led to hacker Kevin Mitnick’s famous takedown. In the early days, networks were simpler. There were fewer threats attacking fewer...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Security Flaw Found In Alcatel DSL Modems
News Another author of the alert was Tsutomu Shimomura, a well-known security researcher and co-author of Takedown, on the arrest of hacker Kevin Mitnick. Computer industry security experts believe they have discovered a vulnerability in certain high...
[April 11, 2001, 8:55]
Hacker's Auctions Stir Up Controversy
News After eluding authorities for three years, he was arrested in 1995 after being tracked down by computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura. Kevin Mitnick, the infamous hacker, has found a new and controversial way to make money: auctioning his...
[December 1, 2000, 16:22]
Hackers Break Into Yahoo! Home
News He was caught by network administrator Tsutomu Shimomura, and brought to fame in a book by New York Times reporter John Markoff. The posting ended with a page-long diatribe, criticizing Shimomura and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
[December 10, 1997, 9:20]
A Year Ago: Hackers Break Into Yahoo! Home
News He was caught by network administrator Tsutomu Shimomura, and brought to fame in a book by New York Times reporter John Markoff. The posting ended with a page-long diatribe, criticizing Shimomura and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
[December 10, 1998, 10:30]
The Mitnick Release: Is It Over?
News The FBI captured him on February 15, 1995, when computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura suffered an attack on his machine, and responded by tracking Mitnick to his hideout in Raleigh, North Carolina.
[January 21, 2000, 8:40]
Mitnick Selling Notorious Laptops
News Tsutomu Shimomura, a senior fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, helped track down Mitnick in 1995 after the hacker broke into the computer scientist's server the prior year. These were the laptops used to hack into companies and (security...
[October 3, 2002, 7:36]
Mitnick Calls For Hackers' War Stories
News The book was written by Mitnick's rival and security professional Tsutomu Shimomura, and co-authored by New York Times journalist John Markoff. Shimomura assisted the FBI in tracking Mitnick, who launched a scathing attack on the Takedown account...
[December 19, 2003, 9:40]
The Case Of The Unhappy Hacker
News Mitnick was caught by computer security specialist Tsutomu Shimomura and a huge FBI manhunt; Middleton was simply tripped up by a caller I.D.box. Middleton didn't even have the common sense of Mitnick and Poulsen to cry 'Uncle' and admit that the...
[May 6, 1999, 16:02]
Mitnick Supporters: It's Not Over Yet
News Tsutomu Shimomura, the computer security expert who spearheaded the cross-country electronic manhunt that lead to Mitnick's 1995 arrest, said he hoped there wouldn't be a "sequel. When imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick pleaded guilty to seven...
[March 30, 1999, 11:13]
