Quotes About Cybersecurity

Counterterrorism, cyberterrorism, it's real.

You don't have to be a genius mathematician to have a career in cyber security, but it certainly helps to be a strong mathematician.

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

If I were to share with you the number of attacks that come into the Duke network every day, you would be astounded. And it's not from people working out of their garage; it's from nation-states that are trying to penetrate systems.

I think it's safe to say that the Russians are extremely interested in anything that has to do with the U.S. political system. And it's not out of the realm of possibility that they are in many other systems.

I've been studying China for quite some time now, and I'm big on China as well. And I think we need to be very concerned about Chinese technology getting into our systems or the systems of our allies.

10phtCrack. The magic this program performs is taken for granted by those who use it, and I suspect thoroughly hated by a great many others. The l0pht group garnered media attention because they wrote a tool (called 10phtCrack) that quickly cracked password hashes.

for example the rule set called leetspeak—a system for replacing letters with numbers, as in "k3v1n m17n1ck.

Speaking at the Chaos Communication Congress, an annual computer hacker conference held in Berlin, Germany, Tobias Engel, founder of Sternraute, and Karsten Nohl, chief scientist for Security Research Labs, explained that they could not only locate cell-phone callers anywhere in the world, they could also listen in on their phone conversations. And if they couldn't listen in real time, they could record the encrypted calls and texts for later decryption.

China is also believed to be behind hacks of Anthem insurance (80 million records), Marriott (400 million records), and Equifax's 146 million credit records covering nearly every adult in America.78

Cyberattacks are defined as "deliberate actions to alter, disrupt, deceive, degrade, or destroy computer systems or networks or the information and/or programs resident in or transiting these systems or networks."32 Put more simply, cyberattacks involve any activity that alters the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information on digital systems.

Stuxnet, the most sophisticated cyber weapon in the world, with code fifty times larger than typical malware.99 The CIA, the NSA, and Israel's elite cyber Unit 8200 reportedly joined forces.100 Forensics revealed that Stuxnet used four rare and valuable "zero day" vulnerabilities (coding flaws unknown to security researchers or software vendors) to find the precise software operating Iran's centrifuges, spread inside, hide, and destroy without a trace.101

It's hard to imagine now, but as late as 2007, the Intelligence Community's annual threat assessment did not include the word cyber once.42 In 2009, cyber threats still ranked so low on the priority list, they were buried on page 38 of the forty-five-page threat assessment, just below drug trafficking in West Africa.43 Fast forward five years and the world looked very different, with cyber vaulting to the top tier of the 2012 intelligence threat list.

While running a wide range, the cyberattacks perpetrated by China Russia, Iran, and North Korea come in five basic types: stealing, spying, disrupting, destroying, and deceiving.

Gen. Keith Alexander, once the nation's top cyberwarrior, called it "the greatest transfer of wealth in history.

Anything running on code and connected to the Internet is a potential cyberattack vector. This global battlespace changes every time anyone on earth downloads an app, installs a patch, inserts a thumb drive, connects to airport Wi-Fi, or plugs in a smart toaster.

In 2018, the Pentagon moved from hunkering down and defending American computer systems against incoming attacks to embracing a proactive, take-the-fight-to-them-every-day strategy called Defend Forward.

Together, these four nations are behind 77 percent of all suspected state-sponsored cyberattacks since 2005.

Many nations steal online, but North Korea is particularly aggressive, targeting financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges to steal billions to fund its illicit nuclear weapons program.66

Becoming an effective security professional requires more than knowing how to deploy and configure technology. It requires combining security theory with practical, hands-on experience.

There is no secure data center in the world; they have all been broken into. We can help you prepare for it and minimize the damage when it does occur.

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.