Quotes About Hacking

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.

If I don't update my body's anti-virus program regularly, I will wake up one day to discover that the millions of nano-robots coursing through my veins are now controlled by a North Korean hacker.

a dashboard for your body' (New York Times, 4 August 2011), and self-trackers are often described as 'body hacking' or as 'bio hackers'.

You hacked the FBI?" I said incredulously. "And Interpol," Sloane replied brightly. "And you'll never guess what I found.

At that point in time, there were three things in life that I knew for certain: (1) I was a girl who'd never met a site she couldn't hack or a code she couldn't break, (2) I had a roundhouse that could put a grown man in the hospital, and (3) I would without question chop off my own hands before I'd come within five feet of a pom-pom

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

In 2018, about two billion people, or two-thirds of the online population, had their personal information stolen or compromised.

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

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.

The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

How hard do you think it'd be to hack into the database of a major research university?" Mac hesitated. "Since you're asking me on a cell phone, in front of God and the NSA- impossible.

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.

Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker in teenage years. But hacking is not my occupation, and I do not have any job within any intelligence, either Russian or some another.

First of all, a giant corporation probably shouldn't be being hacked by teenagers. I put that on the corporation, not the teenagers. Teenagers are going to do what teenagers are going to do - rebelling. But if they're able to hack a big corporation, that seems like the corporation should be better at security.

Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees.

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.