Corrections.com commentary discussing supervision and monitoring conditions imposed on hackers like Kevin Mitnick after release, comparing them to restrictions used for other offender categories. Read more →

Kevin Mitnick’s bestselling memoir, co-written with William L. Simon, recounting his hacking career, years as a fugitive, arrest, and imprisonment, including passages on his friendship and later business partnership with Alex Kasper. 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 →

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 →

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 →

New York Times report on the FCC ruling that allowed Kevin Mitnick, then still on supervised release, to use the Internet again. Read more →

Justice Department USA Bulletin article by prosecutor Christopher Painter analyzing supervised-release and probation restrictions imposed in computer-hacking cases, drawing on the Kevin Mitnick prosecution as a key example. Read more →

San Francisco Chronicle report on the legal disputes surrounding Miramax’s Takedown film, including objections from Kevin Mitnick and author Jonathan Littman over its portrayal of the case. Read more →

U.S. Department of Justice press release announcing Kevin Mitnick’s sentencing to nearly four years in federal prison and restitution orders to the corporate victims of his hacking, following his 1999 guilty plea. Read more →

Computer Fraud & Security trade journal report on Kevin Mitnick’s 1999 guilty plea to seven federal charges, ending nearly five years of pretrial detention. Read more →

Wired report by Arik Hesseldahl on Kevin Mitnick’s pretrial fight for access to a computer to review the government’s discovery evidence against him, part of the broader controversy over his conditions of confinement. Read more →

U.S. Attorney’s press release announcing Kevin Mitnick’s sentencing to 22 months in federal prison for possessing cloned cellular phone codes and for violating the supervised-release conditions of his 1989 computer fraud conviction. Read more →

Los Angeles Times report on Kevin Mitnick’s arraignment on the federal computer and wire fraud charges brought in the 1996 Los Angeles indictment. Read more →

Los Angeles Times report on Lewis De Payne’s surrender and release on bond after his federal indictment. Read more →

Los Angeles Times report on the 25-count federal grand jury indictment of Kevin Mitnick on charges including computer fraud, wire fraud, and illegal interception of communications. Read more →