

For instance, you cannot use the Get-Process command to return the list of active processes on another computer. The default set of PowerShell commands that support Windows operate on the local server and cannot execute remotely. Tony Redmond, in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with SP1, 2008 4.11 Working with Remote Servers A documentary titled Freedom Downtime was a fan-based documentary created in response to the big-budget documentary Takedown. In 2000, the movie Takedown, which was based on the book of that title, was released.

Two books have been written specifically about Kevin Mitnick’s case: John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura’s Takedown, and Jonathan Littman’s The Fugitive Game. Kevin claims that the solitary confinement was imposed because law enforcement was able to convince a judge that he would be able to “start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone.” During his parole Kevin was prohibited to access the Internet or to use any other communications technology other than a landline telephone. Kevin has served five years in prison, four and half years during pretrial confinement, and eight months of solitary confinement postconviction.

In addition to these confirmed acts, Kevin is rumored to have stolen computer manuals from the Pacific Bell telephone switching center in Los Angeles, reading the email of computer security personal at MCI and Digital wiretapped the California State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and hacked into Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), Pacific Bell, the FBI, the Pentagon, Novell, the University of Southern California, and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Kevin is also known to have broken into Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, and Fujitsu Siemens computer systems.

The purpose of break-in to the minicomputer at the CLC in Los Angeles was probably the most interesting case as it was to win a bet. Throughout Kevin’s criminal escapades he often used social engineering to get usernames and passwords, as well as modem phone numbers for corporate systems (today he would ask for the VPN server name instead).īy getting people’s usernames, passwords, and phone numbers, it is confirmed that Kevin broke into DEC’s (Digital Equipment Corporation) computer systems to view the VMS (Virtual Memory System) source code as well as gaining full administrative rights to an IBM minicomputer at the Computer Learning Center (CLC) in Los Angeles. Kevin first used social engineering at the age of 12 when he got a bus driver to tell him where to get a bus transfer punch that would allow him to ride the Los Angeles city bus system for free. The most famous Social Engineer of all time would probably have to be Kevin Mitnick. Story time The Most Famous Social Engineer of All Time
