Kevin Mitnick on 'Ghost in the Wires' and the Rise of the Hacktivists. In the '90s there was no bigger hacker than Kevin Mitnick. In his new book, 'Ghost in the Wires,' he relives his glory days, talks about the new generation of media-savvy hacktivists, and warns of new threats. By Brian Ries. Kevin Mitnick is jet-lagged. The 48-year-old security consultant, once known to America as the world’s most notorious computer hacker, has finally returned home to Las Vegas after a three-week vacation in Spain—his first in 11 years—and there’s no time to reboot.
In town this weekend are 14,000 other hackers, IT professionals, and corporate-security specialists (his estimate) attending Def-Con, which he calls “hands down the biggest security conference in the world.” The Daily Beast caught up with the notorious hacker as he took a break from the action, to get the scoop on his latest book, Ghost in the Wires. It’s a fair comparison. In the 1990s, Mitnick went on a “countrywide hacking spree" that made him one of the FBI's most wanted computer criminals.
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