Shimomura, Tsutomu

Shimomura, Tsutomu definition - hacker
A computational physicist who at just 30 years of age helped the U.S. federal authorities catch cracker Kevin D. Mitnick in 1995. At that time, frequent cracker Mitnick (who is now a computer security consultant and computer security book writer), was on the FBIÂ’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives list. Following the capture of Mitnick, Shimomura wrote the book Takedown to describe the event, and in 2002, a movie of the same name was released. He is now a Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

See Also: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Mitnick, Kevin (a.k.a. Condor).

Schell, B.H., Dodge, J.L., with S.S. Moutsatsos. The Hacking of America: WhoÂ’s Doing It, Why, and How. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2002.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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