#pro

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#card #credit #credit card #going #into

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#computer #computers #decades #describe #enthusiasts

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#any #basically #because #code #compromised

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

But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#businesses #gives #hard #investment #liability

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#characterize #companies #hacker #i #improve

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#for the people #great #hunger #misery #people

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#back #class #computer #days #first

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#operational #our #physical #problems #security