A clip from the Freedom Downtime (2001) DVD extras, in which he explains to Emmanuel Goldstein a social-engineering technique for having a ‘replacement’ package shipped to a hotel under a false pretext and picked up without a trace. 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 →

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 →

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 →

Slashdot posts Kevin Mitnick’s long-delayed, detailed answers to reader-submitted questions, in which he corrects a story he says misquoted him and sets the record straight on several other points. Read more →

Ventura County Star profile of Kevin Mitnick’s transition from convicted hacker to computer-security consultant after his release from prison, including his collaboration with Alex Kasper at Defensive Thinking. Read more →

Internal CSEPS course workbook module on developing a pretext and the psychological principles of influence, persuasion, and compliance. Read more →

Internal CSEPS course workbook module covering research, intelligence gathering, and elicitation techniques used to plan a social-engineering attack. Read more →

Internal CSEPS course workbook module introducing the fundamentals of social engineering and the attacker’s research/trust/exploit cycle. Read more →

Upcoming Book Explores the Hidden Tactic Behind Modern Deception Read more →

Hacker, Computer security consultant, author, and longtime friend Read more →

Certified Social Engineering Prevention Specialist: corporate security-awareness training co-developed with Kevin Mitnick Read more →