Quotes About Cybersecurity

Governments almost never admit to hacking each other's computers. Researchers generally infer the country of origin from the target list.

Security is hard; while you can show that a particular algorithm is weak, you can't show that one algorithm you don't know how to break is more secure than another.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

Weak passwords are a crook's best friend. Make yours long and complex, and change them often - not just on your bank account but on your email and social media, too.

The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker tricks and most effective defenses.

Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an archive of malware: a kind of catalog of the tricks bad actors have tried to pull, which often involve masquerading as legitimate actors.

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

A large key is not a guarantee of security," says Hellman, "but a small key is a guarantee of insecurity.

Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.

A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.

I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company.

There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.

Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.

Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

In humanity's relentless drive for convenience and economic growth, we have developed a dangerous level of dependency on networked systems in a very short space of time: in less than two decades, huge parts of the so-called 'critical national infrastructure' (CNI in geekish) in most countries have come under the control of ever more complex computer systems.

With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it's GRU, which is Russia's military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it's FSB, the Russian federal security service.

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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce.

The sooner we act, the sooner we can start turning the tables on cyberattackers.

It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.

Cyber criminals are good... but they cut corners. They don't spend a lot of time tweaking things and making sure that every aspect of the attack is obfuscated.

The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.