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

— Kevin Mitnick

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

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

— John McAfee

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

— Barton Gellman

People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice,…

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Kevin Mitnick

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic…

— Anonymous

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

“central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.”

— Steven Levy