Away Quote by Barton Gellman

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click…

— Kevin Mitnick

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

— Kevin Mitnick

The digital world creates situation where there are no secrets anymore.

— Angela Merkel

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and…

— Kevin Mitnick

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for…

— John Twelve Hawks

A false sense of security is the only kind there is.

— Michael Meade

Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win…

— Charles Platt

“The world’s governments have many classified layers and outsiders rarely gain access to their hidden secrets. And certainly no common man can get confirmation…

— Dr. Takaaki Musha

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where…

— Barton Gellman

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

— Kevin Mitnick

What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic espionage and…

— Christopher A. Wray

Counterintelligence is, in effect, chasing ghosts, which is why the tools used to investigate foreign intelligence activity are secret, like human sources or electronic…

— Asha Rangappa