Mitnick: " the man is always often the weakest link in a network"
Many know Kevin Mitnick as a notorious hacker. And that is not undeservedly. In 1995, he was arrested by the American security force FBI, to be after which he known offender at computer fraud and got five year jail.
Meanwhile is Mitnick however active as a securitysconsultant. He has been seen an eager speaker on beauctioningsconferenties. Our colleagues of CNet spoke with him in San Francisco, after one of its presentations.
What do you of the present protections level of software think”
“Software will always bugs contain because the development of it men work is. Hopefully there in trainings these days more attention is spent at safe assistants then in my time. Better trainings and more bijscholing on the territory of software safety can never the problem in every case reduce - only totally take away.”
Is software these days safer than five or ten years ago”
“No. I wait then on the first affair which a software manufacturer are accused because its product bugs shows. Already will that businesses self source ingedekt have with a long userslicentie that nobody ever reads. There naturally source exceptions are is source improvement visible; by some businesses. The present Windows-codes of Microsoft for instance is safer than Windows NT ever been is.”
Not only software only also men are not without wrong. It become considered praise many scams to entice men sensitive information to give via internet. Is in this a particular development to see”
“Then I began, was it the time from phone phreaking; A child of hacking of telephone line. That went not around the hacking of the technique, but round social engineering: The misleading of men. Your rung then various divisions within telephone business understanding to get in their business structure, with as finally aim the business under false furrow wish yards so far to get something for you to do. As free of charge a telephone line available put.
Social engineering comes these days again always often for. Because protections technologies geavanceerder become, is the man always often the weakest link in the network. And a hacker goes always for the weakest link.”