History of Hacking Part 4

History of Hacking Part 4 is all about the infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick. In fact Kevin was the first hacker to make it to the FBI Most wanted list and even has a movie called Operation Takedown made about him. This video talks all about Kevin and how the FBI finally caught up, with the help of computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura. This is definitely an interesting part of Hacking history and if possible please watch the movie as well, it's an absolute masterpiece.

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the founder of an online startup (currently in stealth mode). Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net