Kevin Mitnick, the journey from Hacker to Hero

Kevin David Mitnick (Born August 6, 1963) the greatest Hacker of all times.Story of Kevin Mitnick seems to be a fairy tale, where a young teenager was simply ahead of his time doing wonders in the field of computers that was still not that common and was in expansion. Being a 12 years old school boy he broke the secured purchasing system of the Los Angeles bus system to get free rides. Kevin had broken thousands of computer networks being a Hacker, including Pacific Bell tale-Switching, MCI communication, California DMV,Motorola, Nokia. Even in eighties he was arrested from his university campus while trying to break through in Pentagon security networks.

This born networking worm was among the top of the wanted list on FBI charts, but Kevin had already found a way to deal with the situation, as he had already hacked the FBI network and was able to get the inside info about him being captured and thus was avoiding FBI and police. But in 1995 FBI was able to capture this long time wanted cyber criminal and he was convicted in the court of justice and had to live in prison for five long years.

He was a child of divorced parent while living with his mother, young Mitnick was alone and there was nothing fascinating about his life, which was the main reason he started these activities, Kevin tried several times to revert back to normality but prior to 2003, he would always turn back to the ill use of computing. After 2003 it was time for him to change his status from a notorious hacker to a national hero. He decided to use all his knowledge for positive purposes. He wrote several books about cyber crimes and its remedies. Mitnick now runs Mitnick Security Consulting LLC, a computer security consultancy, where he can be consulted regarding computer security and data theft. Although his fame began as a cow boy hacker through out US, his current stature has earned him the status of a hero like human.