History of Hacking Part 5

History of Hacking Part 5 continues with the Kevin Mitnick chase and finally the FBI nab him. As he was the first cyber criminal to be nabbed the judiciary system wanted to make an example out of him. He was held in prison for over 2 years before being released. During this time the whole "Free Kevin" movement started over the Internet. Kevin Mitnick is now a reformed hacker and has started his own successful security consulting services. The video comes to an end with Steve Mozniak, John Draper and Kevin, all meeting up together and discussing old times. Well, that also brings us to the end of this 5 part series on the History of Hacking. Hope you enjoyed the show!

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