Who is the unknown genius 'Susan Thunder' who worked with 'legendary hacker' Kevin Mitnick and set up a number of social engineering?
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'Hacker' a long time in fiction such as a movie, the screen that emits light in the dark, emerges binary code, that man ...... hitting the keyboard while staring at the screen was it drawn the way . However, the actual hacking behavior is not limited to the one that is completed on the computer, but also the method of social engineering that attaches to the actual human behavior and psychological skits is used. For example, Mr. Mitnick mentioned above used social engineering to put a 'Happy Birthday to his wife' message and a present in the drawer of the FBI agent's desk. It was also talked about that the method used by the 17-year-old boy who caused the biggest hacking attack in Twitter history in 2020 was social engineering.
A 17-year-old man is arrested and prosecuted for launching the biggest hacking attack in Twitter history --GIGAZINE
Susan Headley, also known as Susan Thunder and Susie Thunder, is also good at social engineering, breaking into the American secret base Area 51 and acting with actor Charlie Sheen. , It is known that he caused various incidents such as jailbreaking his co-conspirators.
Mr. Mitnick was feared that 'it is possible to launch missiles using the telephone', but Mr. Thunder who belonged to the hacker group Cyberpunk to which Mr. Mitnick belonged also understood this method. Mr. Thunder was particularly a master of 'controlling people,' pretending to be a telephone operator, clerk, and secretary, accessing a lot of unauthorized information. The ability is said to be 'I was able to convince anyone of anything using the telephone.'
In 1995, Mr. Thunder said in a keynote speech at Defcon at the Hacker Conference, 'Being a human being is a vulnerability by itself.' People basically have the characteristics of 'respecting authority,' 'prone to appeal as useful people,' and 'not good at finding deception,' and their behavior is predictable. For example, if you find a USB labeled 'Payroll Information' in your office, you will be tempted to install it. Social engineering thus takes advantage of human behavior and psychology, and 'being a woman' is an advantage in the process of extracting information, Thunder said.
You can read what kind of person Thunder is from the episodes of his childhood. Phones became popular when Thunder was a child. At that time, Mr. Thunder was a girl who was absorbed in a telephone, which is a magical tool that can talk with a distant person, and dreamed of becoming a telephone operator. However, when he was 9 to 11 years old, Mr. Thunder experienced sexual abuse from his mother's lover with his sister.
Mr. Thunder exaggerated his experience a little and told his mother, who consulted the police. At that time, sexual things were more taboo than they are now, and police suggested that a polygraph be carried out, considering that Mr. Thunder may be lying. Thinking that the exaggeration of the story might make the polygraph a 'lie' and make the case unreasonable, Mr. Thunder went to the library and investigated how the polygraph works. Understanding that polygraphs measure blood pressure and the presence of sweat, Thunder learned how to control blood pressure by controlling breathing, clasping hands, and pressing his feet against the floor. However, the polygraph was not actually carried out, and the mother's lover was found guilty in the trial.
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Later, the mother married another man, who also sexually abused Mr. Thunder. The spread of rumors made Thunder a target of bullying at school, but his mother didn't help him and he left home at the age of 14. Thunder, who went to Hollywood, become intimate relationship with a member of the music band groupies while working as, of telephone accepted industry exchange hands and started working as. This work has given Thunder access to the phone numbers of record company executives, managers and musicians that are not open to the public. When a musician arrives in the city, he pretends to be a related person and requests the addition of a guest list at the venue. Then he went to the scene and got a behind-the-scenes pass. Mr. Thunder learned from his polygraph experience that 'all systems are readable' and 'use rules to break rules' and enter the world of social engineering without using the term social engineering. That's why I stepped in.
In addition, Mr. Thunder raised funds to purchase computer equipment in the work of the so-called 'queen'. We have built a 4-line system for holding a conference call in one room of the apartment. People who do freaking are called 'flakers', and at that time there was a flaker forum called '8BBS'. Thunder also participated in 8BBS, in his first post, 'I'm new to computer phreaking and don't know much about systems and access. I've been phreaking over the phone for a long time and how to do it over the phone. By the way, I'm 187 cm tall, weigh 63 kg, blonde, and my eyes are hazel . '
The exchanges at 8BBS at that time are recorded in the Internet Archive.
Full text of '8BBS Archive P1V1'
https://archive.org/stream/8BBSArchiveP1V1/8BBS_Archive_P1V1_djvu.txt
In reality, Thunder wasn't making a name for himself in the freaking in Los Angeles. However, this post actually caught the attention of Mr. Luis de Pain, a student at the University of Southern California, who is famous as a flaker. De Pain was the person who used the electronic system of the telephone network to invalidate invoices, book flights and hotels for free, and change credit scores.
The two hit it off and started sharing ideas and tools. De Pain then brought his best friend, Flaker and ham radio operator Mitnick, to Thunder.
Mr. Thunder saw how De Pain is doing freaking up close and felt that he was different from any of the men he had seen so far. And, despite being a serious and pure person, he falls in love with De Pain, 'one of the most dangerous people in Los Angeles,' who collects information to access the computer systems of airlines and private companies. It came to be.
The three patrolled the city at night, picking up manuals and office notes from a trash can outside the telephone company, and collecting pieces of information such as access codes and employee names from the company's internal terms. By utilizing these, it seems that he was able to set up more complicated and ambitious scams. When Mitnick and De Pain played a female switchboard operator in the operation, Target easily trusted and leaked information. In this way, the three acted together, but Mr. Thunder hides the details of the exchange, saying that he 'has a long-standing mutual confidentiality agreement' with Mr. Mitnick.
However, after that, Mr. Thunder and Mr. De Pain will be separated. Thunder cites the breach as 'because Lewis was meeting another woman' because of De Pain's affair, but De Pain said, 'I was just an acquaintance and I wasn't dating in the first place.' I'm denying itself. Mr. Thunder did not reveal to Mr. De Pain that he was a sex worker, but one night after the two broke down, Mr. De Pain followed Mr. Thunder with Mr. Mitnick, and the workplace was I found out that it was a place for BDSM. After confirming that Mr. Thunder was in the store by phone, Mr. De Pain recorded Mr. Thunder's voice over the phone and leaked it to 8BBS. Thunder, who felt that this was a betrayal, called De Pain's mother in retaliation, and the two fought a swamp battle. Eventually, Thunder will send information about the hacks De Pain made to the FBI.
By the time Thunder sent information to the FBI, hackers De Pain, Mitnick, and Mark Ross were already under investigation by the authorities. Authorities interested in Mr. Thunder's information drink Mr. Thunder's request to 'immunity in return for providing information.' Thunder explained that he was not directly involved in De Pain's attempt and was 'just looking next to him.' For this reason, Mr. Thunder is only mentioned as a 'female conspirator' in the news when Mr. De Pain, Mr. Mitnick, and Mr. Ross were arrested and prosecuted.
After that, Mr. Thunder washed his feet from the world of freaking, got a legal job, got married, and lived quietly. Mr. Thunder dislikes exposure to the media and is careful not to leave any trace of himself on the Internet. When asked in an interview, 'Do you know why no one knows me?' Evans replied 'No.' 'The best hackers in the world, the best flakers aren't known to anyone because they've never been caught. They've never been in jail. You know the best in the world. That's why it doesn't exist. '
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