Category: Social Engineering Quotes & Sayings – Page 2 of 2
100+ Best Cyber Security & Hacker Quotes for wisdom in cyber security. Read, rate or share your favorite quote.

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.
Frank Abagnale

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
Jaron Lanier

I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone – in a purely white hat sort of way.
John McAfee

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver’s door of a car.
John McAfee

Social engineering, the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least great a threat as spooky technology.
Barton Gellman

I taught at the FBI for four decades – how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.
Frank Abagnale

Ransomware is more about manipulating vulnerabilities in human psychology than the adversary’s technological sophistication.
James Scott

Hackers find more success with organizations where employees are under appreciated, over worked and under paid. Why would anyone in an organization like that care enough to think twice before clicking on a phishing email?
James Scott
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