Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
- ISBN-10
- 031620160X
- ISBN-13
- 9780316201605
- Series
- Ghost in the Wires
- Category
- Computer crimes
- Pages
- 413
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Authors
- Kevin David Mitnick, William L Simon
Description
Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful - and seemingly impenetrable - agencies and companies.
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- 2012-04-24
- 448 pages
- Paperback
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- 2011-08-15
- 413 pages
- Paperback
- Little Brown & Company
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