Best quotes by Kevin Mitnick on Security

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• ‟ A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

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

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• ‟ New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

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

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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.

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• ‟ My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my goal was to learn all I can about security vulnerabilities within these systems.

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

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