This issue's interview has a special twist – it first appeared as "The Weekend Interview" in The Wall Street Journal. For someone who loves to interview interesting people, the opportunity to do it for the WSJ's editorial page was a really neat experience.
For this I traveled to Las Vegas (man it was hot) to interview Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker. Mitnick spent six years in federal prison for various computer and phone hacking crimes. He now works as a "white hat," a hacker who is paid to break into companies' systems to find vulnerabilities that the real bad guys could exploit. Mitnick shared with me his thoughts on the recent surge in ransomware attacks, election hacking and how to stay safe online. Oh, and he hacked a computer in front of my eyes!
You can check it out here:
http://coverageopinions.info/WallstreetMitnick.pdf