There is no patch for stupidity.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Through dreams, your ideas and ideals are brought to reality, so learn to dream of the future you wish to experience.

Why talk about something you can't do anything about?

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

Never give up. The bankers and financial people did not take me seriously initially. Everyone thought I would fail. My attitude was that 'No' is an unacceptable answer when it comes to financing.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I had this illusion that if I kind of dressed badly that I wouldn't stand out. You know, so I actually went out of my way to not look different to the extent I could.