Able Quote by Kevin Mitnick

I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside…

— John McAfee

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

— Thomas Sowell

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

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 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 the clever manipulation and control of ideas in a sequenced pattern that doesn't change.

— Jeremy Limn

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

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In…

— Thomas Sowell

'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

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

— Kevin Mitnick

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

— Karl Popper

Every day, I witness innovative technologies being used to not only address social challenges but to build stronger communities - here in the U.S.…

— Tae Yoo