Summary Of The Art Of Deception By Kevin D. Mitnick
In the book The Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick I chose chapter 9 to summarize and relate it a current news article. Chapter 9 is about the reverse sting and how it is used by con artists to pull of major scams. Mitnick also tells us solutions on how to prevent such scams and how to be wary of the social engineer.
The sting or “running the wire” is a great tool on the grifter’s belt because it allows them to pull of major scams with ease. Sometimes though the sting is ran opposite of the traditional patterns, when this happens the reverse sting is created. Now most of us when we hear the term computer hacker imagine a picture of an anti-social, introverted nerd who is obsessed with computers. Mitnick tells us in this book that images is actually false and the actual …show more content…
What is a Social Engineer? Well social engineering as defined by TechTarget.com is “is an attack vector that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures.” So basically a social engineer is someone who uses his or her conversation and manipulation skills to get what they want. The reverse sting as defined by Mitnick is “A con in which the person being attacked asks the attacker for help”. So you can see why the stereotype couldn’t pull off such a crime.
Through two different stories Mitnick tells us about how the reverse sting is done. We will analyze the first story. The first story is a tale about P.I Vince Caparelli and how he conned four bank employees into giving him financial information about his target. Essentially he called four different employees of the bank in succession each time asking for a different piece of bank security information that would be used to
The sting or “running the wire” is a great tool on the grifter’s belt because it allows them to pull of major scams with ease. Sometimes though the sting is ran opposite of the traditional patterns, when this happens the reverse sting is created. Now most of us when we hear the term computer hacker imagine a picture of an anti-social, introverted nerd who is obsessed with computers. Mitnick tells us in this book that images is actually false and the actual …show more content…
What is a Social Engineer? Well social engineering as defined by TechTarget.com is “is an attack vector that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures.” So basically a social engineer is someone who uses his or her conversation and manipulation skills to get what they want. The reverse sting as defined by Mitnick is “A con in which the person being attacked asks the attacker for help”. So you can see why the stereotype couldn’t pull off such a crime.
Through two different stories Mitnick tells us about how the reverse sting is done. We will analyze the first story. The first story is a tale about P.I Vince Caparelli and how he conned four bank employees into giving him financial information about his target. Essentially he called four different employees of the bank in succession each time asking for a different piece of bank security information that would be used to