Quotes About Cybersecurity

I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.

We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?

The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.

Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit those mistakes.

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

The encryption genie is out of the bottle.

called counter command-control warfare: just knowing that you'd been hacked, regardless of its tangible effects, was disorienting, disrupting. Meanwhile

New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

More connections to more devices means more vulnerabilities.

If you've never mistyped your password, it isn't complex enough.

We're concerned that people are trading security for convenience…People are doing things on free Wi-Fi that are really alarming

I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.

Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

How many of the 'Fortune' 500 are hacked? 500.

Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't get hacked. Don't care? You will when you get hacked. Do the same for your email and other social services, too.

Evil comes in through the cable and through the Internet. We look forward to the advent of driverless cars. But they can be hacked. You could be riding along, and some 14-year-old in Romania takes over your car, so you end up running the lights and losing your brakes or, worse, listening to Eminem. What's the purpose?

I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.

I really didn't understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus?