Social Engineering 101: Hackers Show How It's Done

news.cnet.com — Kevin Mitnick knows that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information. As a young fugitive hacker,he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of social engineering -- making people into doing what you want Jul 20, 2008 View in Crawl 4