The human. Now you know all about your target

- Kevin Mitnick

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

- Kevin Mitnick

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click…

- Kevin Mitnick

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

- Kevin Mitnick

I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all th…

- Kevin Mitnick

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 re…

- Kevin Mitnick

There is no patch for stupidity.

- Kevin Mitnick

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

- Kevin Mitnick

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

- Kevin Mitnick