Cybersecurity Quote by John McAfee

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

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

— John McAfee

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social…

— Kevin Mitnick

“Hackers, he told one interviewer, were “just this group of computer scientists who were trying to quickly prototype and see what was possible. That’s…

— Franklin Foer

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

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

'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

— Barton Gellman

You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

— Francis Crick

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

— John McAfee

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in…

— Kevin Mitnick

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

— Walter O'Brien

“IN 1984, journalist Steven Levy published Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which chronicled the scruffy subculture that had not only created the personal…

— Chris Anderson