The Art of Deception - Controlling the Human Element of Security (Broché)

The world's most celebrated hacker delivers the lowdown on today's most serious security weakness - human nature. "Finally someone is on to the real cause of data security breaches - stupid humans... Mitnick... reveals clever tricks of the "social engineering" trade and shows how to fend them off." Stephen Manes, Forbes. "A tour de force, a series of tales of how some old-fashioned blarney and high-tech skills can pry any information from anyone.
As entertainment, it's like reading the climaxes of a dozen complex thrillers, one after the other." Publishers Weekly. "Mitnick provides hair-raising examples of social engineering - disgruntled employees stealing top-secret research, smooth-talking con men acquiring data on next-generation explosives for terrorists - and explains how to combat it," Angela Gunn, Time Out New York. "He was the FBI's most-wanted hacker.
But in his own eyes, Mitnick was simply a small-time con artist with an incredible memory [and] a knack for social engineering... This is Mitnick's account, complete with advice for how to protect yourself from similar attacks. I believe his story." Simson Garfinkel, Wired.