Bypass Quote by 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

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with…

— Evgeny Morozov

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

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

— Adam McKay

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

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link…

— 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

Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have…

— Stephanie Mills

'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

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest…

— Kevin Mitnick

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

— Max Born

We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop].

— Donna Brazile