#cia

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#commercial #day #does #get #hand

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#appropriate #attacks #big #both #engineering

Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#casualties #cause #computer #cyber #day

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#attachment #click #computer #convince #deception

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#benefits #comply #deception #engineering #get

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

#allows #engineering #gain #hacker #influencing

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#cartoons #draw #enjoy #enjoy reading #expecting

My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her. ↗

— Mary Ann Mobley

#associate #daughter #disney #her #i

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage. ↗

— Brian Molko

#dresses #enjoy #find #great #great deal

I'm in this position where I can afford to wait, I'm lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that's thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you're perceived by people. So I'm just waiting. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#anything #couple #crucial #enough #financially