Best quotes by Kevin Mitnick on Information
Checkout quotes by Kevin Mitnick on Information
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‟ 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
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‟ 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 link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.
- Kevin Mitnick
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‟ 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
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‟ If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient.
- Kevin Mitnick
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‟ 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, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.
- Kevin Mitnick