Quotes About Cybersecurity

people hack into the library to rehearse hacking into bigger, more secure, and more valuable targets.

When events like the Sony Hack or the news of the Russian hack of our election, we're not shocked by such events, but they are troubling.

In addition to my job at American Express, I'm also chairman of the board of Symantec, one of the leading players in anti-virus and cyber-crime prevention software, so I know firsthand just how sophisticated many of these attacks can be.

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.

It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.

Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.

Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.

Quantum Encryption is essential to protect our digital assets and infrastructure from attackers.

I went to prison for my hacking. Now people hire me to do the same things I went to prison for, but in a legal and beneficial way.

One noted software libertarian, Richard Stallman, even refused to protect his account with a password.

Anyone who thinks that security products alone offer true security is settling for the illusion of security.

Every hacker is to some extent a rebel who lives by different standards and enjoys beating the system.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it's money wasted, because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.

Beware of geeks bearing gifts

There was nothing like staring down the barrel of a suspected cyberweapon to clear the fog in your mind.

The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called Stuxnet 'a stone thrown by people who live in a glass house'.

In amassing zero-day exploits for the government to use in attacks, instead of passing the information about holes to vendors to be fixed, the government has put critical-infrastructure owners and computer users in the United States at risk of attack from criminal hackers, corporate spies, and foreign intelligence agencies who no doubt will discover and use the same vulnerabilities for their own operations.

You couldn't bomb a plant you didn't know about, but you could possibly cyberbomb it

But more important, he also spotted an encrypted block of code that turned out to be Stuxnet's mother lode—a large .DLL file (dynamic link library) that contained about three dozen other .DLLs and components inside, all wrapped together in layers of encryption like Russian nesting dolls.

But all of this confirmed that as shocking as the revelations about Stuxnet, Duqu, and Flame were, they likely were just the shallow tip of a stockpile of tools and weapons the United States and Israel had built.

Although more than 12 million viruses and other malicious files are captured each year, only about a dozen or so zero-days are found among them.

Most hacking attempts occur from within an organization and are perpetuated by employees, contractors or others in trust position.

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