Penetration Testing Quotes

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

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. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

This will include the various methods of internal monitoring, attack and penetration, investigation of suspected hackers or rogue employees - and you have plenty of rogue employees - and identity protection for government employees. The review team will also remain current on the constantly evolving new methods of attack and will attempt to anticipate them and develop defenses as often as possible before breaches occur.

When you're attacking a router on the internet, and you're doing it remotely, it's like trying to shoot the moon with a rifle. Everything has to happen exactly right. Every single variable has to be controlled and precisely accounted for. And that's not possible to do when you have limited knowledge of the target you're attacking.

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What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.

I met a lot of hackers, and some of them were very arrogant. They thought I was stupid because I couldn't follow what they were talking about. But then I met this great guy whom companies hire to find their security holes, and he was very good about explaining so I could understand.

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.

If you find a node that you can penetrate, that you can eliminate, and draw more information for future operations, I think it's prudent to do.

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.

One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyberdefenses and weaknesses.

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

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.