Password Cracking Quotes

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

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

Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach.

Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.