Frank Abagnale Quotes

It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity.

Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information.

'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers.

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

I think hacking's important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you're on.

I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.

The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.

Crazy stuff happens when you start replying to scam emails. It's really difficult, and I highly recommend we do it.

If you don't understand viruses, phishing, and similar threats, you become more susceptible to them. If you don't know how social networks leak information that you thought was private, you're likely to reveal much more than you realize.

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

We face cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates, and terrorists. They seek our state secrets, our trade secrets, our technology, and our ideas - things of incredible value to all of us. They seek to strike our critical infrastructure and to harm our economy.

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce.

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.