Quotes About Hacking

The United States Cyber Command was created partly in response to a Russian hacking attack that long predated the 2016 election.

The reason that stuff goes bad is because it's crappy old tech. Internal augs are less failure-prone than your own brain." "So they'll work flawlessly when some spambot hacks in and leaves me with an irresistible urge to buy a year's supply of bubble bath for cats.

It may be well possible that phished passwords ended up being used at Sci-Hub. I did not send any phishing emails to anyone myself. The exact source of the passwords was never personally important to me.

A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

Saying that genetics could be dangerous is like saying fire is hot. Warning that soon everyone will be able to hack the genome is like predicting, back in early caveman days, that soon everyone will have fire.

My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my goal was to learn all I can about security vulnerabilities within these systems.

Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit.

Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.

You don't want to wake up and find out that your watch was hacked, that your thermostat was hacked, that your coffeemaker was hacked.

When Target gets hacked, I don't hear people saying, 'Hey, was it Kohl's? Was it Wal-Mart?' It doesn't matter. There was a hack; you deal with it.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

There is the possibility to be suddenly arrested for hacking.

When I first started buying shoes with my own money, I would always get them from eBay. I used to hack my mum's account, and suddenly these white cowboy leather boots would arrive.

No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.

He was able to invade a system designed by me. That narrows it down to maybe ten people on the planet. - Pony

She merely copied the URL of the person's profile picture, then pasted it into a browser and removed a section of it, then hit enter, and she had all of their photos available instantly. Sam's eyebrows went up. "I didn't think there was a way around Facebook's privacy settings." She smiled at him. "Puh-lease," she said. "Did you forget who you're talking to, here? Actually, that's a pretty simple hack that's all over the internet. Anyone

financial transactions from hackers and thieves.

Among state sponsored hacking groups, Russian APT's approach hacking our critical infrastructure as if they are playing chess; strategically, methodically and with a concentrated focus.

The day an organization realizes they've been hacked they'll hire a forensic team to analyze the network only to identify the reality that they were hacked months or years ago, they just didn't know it.

The most successful attacks by more sophisticated hackers tend to be strategically "indirect". Why risk attacking Target directly and getting caught. Just hack the HVAC contractor and use their access to Target's network

A lot of individuals have had their personal information compromised, and then we've seen just about every corporation in this country hacked or attempted to be hacked by foreign countries.

My life isn't interesting enough for anyone to hack my phone.

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.

Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in 2007 when our governmental, banking, and news media servers were hit with 'distributed denial-of-service attacks,' which is when hackers overload servers until they shut down.