Cybersecurity and Hacking with Kevin Mitnick
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It seems everyday there’s a story in the news that involves hacking. Whether it’s a big box retailer, the IRS or Russians hacking the DNC, cyber warfare has become one of the biggest threats in the 21st century and we are all vulnerable. To help you understand the current environment and to learn some of the simple steps we should take to prevent ourselves from becoming a victim, we had to find an expert...a professional hacker. I’m not talking about some random hack...I’m talking about the hacker of all hackers, Kevin Mitnick. This guy is the real deal. So real that after a well publicized pursuit back in the 1990s, he was arrested by the FBI and spent five years in prison, including eight months in solitary confinement. Now a free man, he does consulting work for Fortune 500 companies and the government. Though I should point out that for business cards he uses metal lock pick sets with his name and number on them. Really. In his latest book, The Art of Invisibility, Kevin uses true-life stories to show exactly what is happening without your knowledge, teaching you online and real-world tactics to protect you and your family, with step-by-step instructions. After reading this book you will learn everything from password protection and smart Wi-Fi usage to advanced techniques designed to maximize your anonymity. Despite what we’d all like to believe, our passwords really can be stolen, our data sold and our personal emails read. After listening to this interview, check out the book and learn the simple steps to help prevent it from happening to you. “Better Off” is sponsored by Betterment. We love feedback so please leave us a rating or review in iTunes. "Better Off" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. For a recap of every episode, visit https://www.betterment.com/resources/topics/inside-betterment/better-off-podcast/. Connect with me at these places for all my content: http://www.jillonmoney.com/ https://twitter.com/jillonmoney https://www.facebook.com/JillonMoney https://www.instagram.com/jillonmoney/ https://www.youtube.com/c/JillSchlesinger https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/ https://soundcloud.com/jill-schlesinger http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jill-on-money http://betteroffpodcast.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/better-off-jill-schlesinger/id431167790?mt=2
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Jill Schlesinger. On this episode of Better Off, Kevin Mitnick, the author of The |
| 0:09.4 | Art of Invisibility. Kevin spent five years in jail for hacking. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, this was a guy who made hacking famous before the Russians did. |
| 0:19.0 | How are you going to protect yourself in this brave new world? |
| 0:23.2 | Kevin Mitnick has some answers. |
| 0:25.4 | You can't really protect your social security number, your date of birth. |
| 0:29.0 | Too many people have it. |
| 0:30.0 | But what you can do, at least from a financial perspective, a money perspective, go log into your bank |
| 0:34.8 | account, log into your credit cards, and put on an alert. |
| 0:37.6 | Anytime there's a transaction over ten bucks, send me a text message, send me an email. |
| 0:42.2 | So that way if somebody is misusing your bank account |
| 0:46.0 | or your credit card, you know right away. |
| 0:48.6 | Welcome to the Better Off Podcast, |
| 0:50.7 | sponsored by Betterment, the largest independent online financial advisor. I'm your host |
| 0:55.0 | I'm your host Jill Schlesinger and this week we've got a really terrific guest |
| 1:00.0 | Kevin Mitnick. Now I was a little suspect of this guy. You know why? I don't usually interview |
| 1:05.9 | convicted felons. This guy spent five years in a federal prison. Why? Because he was a hacker and he didn't even hack to get your |
| 1:17.0 | money or your information. He did it for fun essentially just to kind of blow holes |
| 1:21.7 | through security systems. |
| 1:24.4 | Kevin did his time and he's come out and on the other side of that experience |
| 1:29.2 | has become essentially an expert on how to protect yourself against people like him. |
| 1:35.9 | He works for big companies, he's worked for the government before. |
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