Cyber Security & Hacker Quotes and Sayings – Page 1 of 8
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Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.
Bruce Schneier

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked.
Richard Clarke

Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge.
Bruce Schneier

Time is what determines security. With enough time nothing is unhackable.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.
The Mentor (Loyd Blankenship)

Passwords are like underwear. Don’t let people see it, change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.
Chris Pirillo

No technology that’s connected to the Internet is unhackable.
Abhijit Naskar

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.
Kevin Mitnick

As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don’t have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me.
Jeffery Deaver

Phishing is a major problem because there really is no patch for human stupidity.
Mike Danseglio

Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don’t exclude myself from that. It’s about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart.
Harper Reed

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.
Bruce Schneier

If you think you know-it-all about cybersecurity, this discipline was probably ill-explained to you.
Stephane Nappo

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it’s money wasted; none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.
Kevin Mitnick

There are only two different types of companies in the world: those that have been breached and know it and those that have been breached and don’t know it.
Ted Schlein

My message to companies that think they haven’t been attacked is: ‘You’re not looking hard enough.’
James Snook

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
Cory Doctorow

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.
Edward Snowden

It is a fairly open secret that almost all system can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.
Dan Kaminsky

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
Bruce Schneier