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Kevin Mitnick

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Kevin Mitnick (born August 6, 1963) is one of the most famous Crackers to be jailed and convicted. Mitnick's last arrest was by the FBI on February 15, 1995 -- he was charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.

Mitnick had previously been convicted in 1981 of destroying data over a computer network and with stealing operator's manuals from the telephone company. In 1983 he was convicted of breaking into a Pentagon computer over the ARPANET from a USC campus terminal room. Several years later he went underground for more than a year after being accused of tampering with a TRW credit reference computer; an arrest warrant was issued, but it later vanished from police records without explanation. He was convicted of stealing software from the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) in December 1987. In 1988 Mitnick pleaded guilty to one count of computer fraud and one count of possessing illegal long-distance access codes after being caught for nightly attacks attempting to gain entry to Digital's corporate computer network, known as Easynet, in order to steal a copy of Digital's VMS minicomputer operating system.

It was the fifth time that Mitnick had been apprehended for a computer crime, and the case attracted nationwide attention because, in an unusual plea bargain, he agreed to one year in prison and six months in a counseling program for his computer "addiction". It was a strange defense tactic, but a federal judge, after initially balking, bought the idea that there was some sort of psychological parallel between the obsession Mitnick had for breaking in to computer systems and an addict's craving for drugs.

After he finished his jail time and his halfway-house counseling sentence, Mitnick took a job at the Tel Tec Detective Agency. Soon after he began, someone was discovered illegally using a commercial database system on the agency's behalf, and Kevin was once again the subject of an FBI investigation. In September the Bureau searched his apartment. Two months later a federal judge issued a warrant for Mitnick's arrest. When the FBI came to arrest him, Mitnick had vanished.

Mitnick eluded the police, US Marshalls, and FBI for over two years. His downfall was his Christmas 1994 break-in to Tsutomu Shimomura's computers in San Diego, California. Less than two months later, Tsutomu had tracked him down after a cross-country electronic pursuit.

Following his 1995 arrest, Mitnick was held without bail for over two years before sentencing. He has said that he set some kind of United States record by being held for four and a half years without a bail hearing, while also held in solitary confinement for eight months "in order to prevent a massive nuclear strike from being initiated by me via a prison payphone." Jail officials stated that Mitnick could have launched the deadly nuclear strike by whistling into the phone and pressing a few numbers on the dialpad. The course of his trial and punishment became a cause célèbre amongst the hacker community. This movement was spearheaded by 2600's "Free Kevin" campaign.

He was released from prison in January 2002, but banned from using the Internet until the midnight of January 21, 2003. On January 21, 2003, on the live television show The Screen Savers on TechTV, Kevin Mitnick visited the first website since his release, Labmistress.com, the weblog of his girlfriend,--> TechTV producer Darci Wood . Mitnick is now working in consulting and is CEO of the security company Defensive Thinking.

His arrest is detailed in the book Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw-By the Man Who Did It (ISBN 0786889136). Other media inspired by Mitnick's story include the movie, also with the name Takedown, sometimes mistitled as Hackers 2: Takedown. A counterpoint view to the events surrounding Mitnick was written by journalist Jonathan Littman, in The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick (ISBN 0316528587).

Mitnick is also the subject of a two-hour documentary by 2600 entitled Freedom Downtime. It is from the perspective of a fellow hacker and offers a very different view of his case than found in Takedown or most other media today. The film is the winner of the Audience Award for Documentaries at the 2002 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.

As a hacker, Mitnick is best known for his use of social engineering. He wrote a book on this subject after leaving prison but before returning to the Internet: The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security (ISBN 0471237124). It was published in October 2002. The first chapter of the book was omitted by the publisher. It gives some details of his own "career" and his grievances against journalist John Markoff. The chapter has since been made available elsewhere. Its sequel, The Art Of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind The Exploits Of Hackers, Intruders, And Deceivers (ISBN 0764569597) will be published February 11, 2005.
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Controversy

Kevin Mitnick's criminal activities, arrest, and trial were controversial, and have caused some computer industry journalists to raise legal and ethical questions concerning the events surrounding him.

The core of the controversy came from two books that presented varying facts that were at odds with one another: John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura's Takedown, and Jonathan Littman's The Fugitive Game. In particular, Littman made allegations of journalistic impropriety against Markoff, of overzealous prosecution of Mitnick by the government, of main stream media over-hyping of Mitnick's actual crimes, and of the legality of Shimomura's involvement in the matter. Further controversy came over the release of the movie Takedown, with Littman alleging that portions of the film were taken from his book without permission.

The case against Mitnick was an important one. It tested then nascent laws that had been enacted for dealing with computer crime, and it raised public awareness of security issues involving networked computers. The controversy remains, however, as Mitnick is often used today as an example of the quintessential criminal hacker, despite the fact that his activities are thought to have been far less damaging and significant than those of other computer criminals of the time.
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External links

* Defensive thinking , Kevin Mitnick's new company.
* Free Kevin, The Official Kevin Mitnick Site, home of the Free Kevin movement.
* Freedom Downtime, the 2600 documentary.
* www.takedown.com - the timeline, the evidence (including Mitnick's online sessions and voice calls)SUPER - and other information on the Mitnick's break-ins and the resulting pursuit and finally - arrest.
* The Kevin Mitnick/Tsutomu Shimomura affair - lots of information on the case.
* The missing Chapter 1 of Mitnick's book or from a site where it appeared earlier , but in MS Word format only.)
* Mitnick interview, February 5, 2003
* Kevin Mitnick Buys Hacker Stories for Upcoming Book Titled The Art of Hacking
* thebroken.org has a downloadable video interview with Kevin Mitnick in Episode 3 (released January, 2004)

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Yahoo Messenger Archive 1on1



One of the better features of yahoo messenger is the archive viewer. Unlike msn messenger, yahoo stores the archive in a structured format. One drawback of the archive viewer is that you have to be online and logged into yahoo to view your archives. This led me to look at the structure of the yahoo archive files with the “.dat” extension. But before I get into the details of the structure of the .dat file let me explain how the archives are arranged and stored.



All the archive files are stored inside the Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\user id folder .Archives are organized by buddy user ids. The are 3 main folders in here for Messages, Conferences and Mobile Messages. Inside the messages folder there is a sub folder created for every buddy id with which the user has had an IM (instant messaging) conversation. Each archive file inside this folder has a date stamp as part of the filename e.g. 20040802-userid.dat.



Now let’s get into the structure of a .dat file ,I use a hex viewer to view the contents of a file, a hex output of an archive file looks something like this



0000:0000 B6 5B 7B 40 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

0000:0010 00 00 00 00 B6 5B 7B 40 06 00 00 00 01 00 00 00

0000:0020 03 00 00 00 1E 0C 32 00 00 00 00 D7 66 7B 40 06

0000:0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 1E 00 17 00 00

0000:0040 00 00 57 69 7B 40 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2C 00

0000:0050 00 00 02 0D 0B 4B 14 30 0A 10 1D 45 1E 04 1D 4B

0000:0060 1A 30 09 10 44 0C 18 11 01 4B 18 2F 14 14 43 16

0000:0070 56 04 0D 08 16 2A 0A 01 44 11 19 01 0F 12 00 00

0000:0080 00 00 64 69 7B 40 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00

0000:0090 00 00 44 55 5E 5B 59 7B 00 00 00 00 5E 6B 7B 40

0000:00A0 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

0000:00B0 5E 6B 7B 40 06 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00

0000:00C0 19 0E 00 00 00 00 5E 6B 7B 40 06 00 00 00 01 00

0000:00D0 00 00 1C 00 00 00 12 0C 0A 4B 0C 7F 10 14 08 0E

0000:00E0 56 11 01 4B 18 2F 14 14 44 17 13 06 0B 05 1C 2B

0000:00F0 08 0C 00 00 00 00 68 6B 7B 40 06 00 00 00 00 00

0000:0100 00 00 19 00 00 00 0F 00 1D 1F 1C 2D 00 14 1D 45

0000:0110 1E 00 4E 08 18 33 08 10 00 45 1B 00 4E 1E 09 00

0000:0120 00 00 00 E6 6B 7B 40 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06

0000:0130 00 00 00 02 0D 0B 19 1C 60 00 00 00 00 C4 6C 7B



The messages in the archive file are not encrypted; yahoo uses a simple XOR algorithm to encode the messages (so much for security !!) .Every .dat file begins with a timestamp, all messages are also preceded by a timestamp. Every archived message has a 16-byte header at the beginning. Take a look at a typical header and message



0000:0010 00 00 00 00 B6 5B 7B 40 06 00 00 00 01 00 00 00

0000:0020 03 00 00 00 1E 0C 32 00 00 00 00



The header starts from B6 5B 7B 40 and ends at 03 00 00 00 .

The first 5 bytes of the header is the timestamp representing the time at which the message was sent or received.

This is followed by 3 reserved bytes always set to 00

The 9th byte indicates whether the message was received by a user or sent by the user to the buddy. If the value is 01 it indicates the message was received and if it is 00 it indicates that the message was sent by the user to the buddy.

This is again followed by 3 reserved bytes always set to 00

The 13th byte indicates the length of the message that is to follow

This is again followed by 3 reserved bytes always set to 00

The message is encoded using the XOR algorithm with the user id being one of the keys.

In this example the 3 byte message is 1E 0C 32, to get the actual message we need to XOR it back with the user id. The user id with which this message was encoded was ‘venky_dude’



The ASCII equivalent of each character of the user id is as follows

v- 118 ;e -101;n -110;k -107;y -121;_ -95;d -100;u -117;d -100;e -101;

The message bytes in decimal form will be

1E -30; 0C -12; 32 -50

After performing the XOR algorithm the output will be like this

30 (XOR) 118 = 104

12 (XOR) 101 = 105

50 (XOR) 110 = 92

This operation can be easily performed in c/c++ using the ^ operator.

e.g.

int x,y,z;

x=30;

y=118;

z= x ^ y;

printf("%c",z);



Converting the output as per the ASCII code we get the following output

104 – h

105 – i

92 -


Hence the message that was received was “ hi\”.

It’s fairly easy to write a program which would print the decoded message by reading the .dat file.

The message finally in the end is padded by 3 reserved bytes always set to 0.

In case u guys have any queries regarding this article just send me a mail at venkat.mani@gmail.com

From http://www.venkydude.com/articles/yarchive.htm

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to be cont.

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Google is down

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Time 4:10 Pm - cairo time .... 12-1-04

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Flash player on Julie

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