Kevin Mitnick is referred to as "The world's first-rate hacker", his legendary life and hacking experience have become topic that industry and major news media take delight in talking about. Of course the present Mitnick (gave up evil and returned to good) has become the world's famous white hat hacker, he uses his own experience to guide the well-known enterprises and organizations to enhance their safety and protection measures.

The Art of Deception is a bestseller about social engineering with nonprofit nature in 2002, written by the world famous hacker Kevin D. Mitnick who is also one of the headaches for FBI in the history (of course, after released from the federal prison in 2000 he became one of the world's popular computer security experts).