Alex Kasperavicius, then vice president of technology for Barkley Court Reporters, explains what a digital signature is and how it authenticates and protects a court reporter’s transcript, drawing on a presentation he gave at the 2008 NCRA convention. Read more →

CNET report by Elinor Mills on live social-engineering demonstrations by Kevin Mitnick and other hackers, illustrating how attackers manipulate people rather than just computers to breach security. Read more →

Playboy profile of Kevin Mitnick’s life after prison, examining his transformation into a security consultant and public speaker. Read more →

Wired feature collecting Kevin Mitnick’s practical security advice for consumers and businesses, drawing on his own hacking and social-engineering experience. Read more →

Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon’s follow-up to The Art of Deception, recounting real-world hacking incidents told from the perspective of the intruders themselves. Read more →

Patrick Gray profiles longtime friends and business partners Alex Kasper and Kevin Mitnick, contrasting Kasper’s path from teenage phone hacking into video-game production with Mitnick’s arrest, imprisonment, and later career as an author and security consultant, tracing how their shared history led to founding Defensive Thinking. Read more →

At a social engineering prevention workshop in Sydney this week, Mitnick and business partner Alex Kasperavicius shared some of the tactics used by social engineers to bypass a company’s technical security by exploiting employees’ psychological vulnerabilities. Read more →

Reference encyclopedia entry situating Kevin Mitnick’s hacking career within the broader history of the Internet and computer security. Read more →

Interior Design magazine’s full “workplace” feature on Nexspace’s 17,000-square-foot Westwood facility, with commentary from Beckson Design Associates director of design Steven Heisler, a full furniture and materials credit list, and the company’s contact details. Read more →

Turner Classic Movies database entry for Takedown, the 2000 film dramatizing the pursuit and capture of Kevin Mitnick. Read more →

Background information about Defensive Thinking and its security training programs. Read more →

A profile of Kevin Mitnick’s transition from hacker to security educator, naming Intense School Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. as the training center partnering with Mitnick and Alex Kasper’s Defensive Thinking to deliver their social-engineering course to clients including the U.S. Air Force, the Marines, and mortgage companies. Read more →

Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon’s first book, presenting real and fictionalized social-engineering case studies to teach organizations how attackers manipulate employees into giving up sensitive information. Read more →

Rotten.com, the long-running shock site and its Rotten Library encyclopedia, profiles Kevin Mitnick sympathetically as a hacker punished far beyond his actual crimes, tracing his path from 1980s bulletin-board intrusions to his 1995 capture while criticizing journalists John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura and cataloging abuses in his prosecution. Read more →

Transcript of Kevin Mitnick’s April 2003 testimony before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on cybersecurity and social-engineering threats facing the financial sector. Read more →