#engine

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. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#appropriate #attacks #big #both #engineering

I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phishing targets because they usually have administrator rights over the network. Then I go onto Twitter or Facebook and trick them into doing something, and I have privileged access. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#administrator #because #come #doing #engineers

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. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#attachment #click #computer #convince #deception

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#benefits #comply #deception #engineering #get

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

— Kevin Mitnick

#allows #engineering #gain #hacker #influencing

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools. ↗

— Robert Moog

#engineer #i #i see #musicians #myself

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians. ↗

— Robert Moog

#enabled #engineer #i #i do #make

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#convinced #engineer #had #having #me

The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season. ↗

— Marc Morial

#city #civil #come #could #engineers

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#control #economic #economic engine #engine #incumbent