Bill Gates Quotes

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

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.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.

Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

The Russians hacked into the Illinois State Board of Elections. They got into the database.

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

We want to detect malware, regardless of its source or purpose. Politics don't even enter the discussion, nor should they. Any malware, even targeted, can get out of hand and cause 'collateral damage' to machines that aren't the intended victim.

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient.

The very promise of safety [digital security] is iresistable temptation to hackers, the invading hordes of the 21st century.

One thing about cyberattacks is that what works on Monday may not work on Thursday.

National security always matters, obviously. But the reality is that if you have an open door in your software for the good guys, the bad guys get in there, too.

Every single day, agents of certain foreign governments are relentlessly and methodically trying to hack into our corporations' computer networks and steal blueprints for next-generation equipment and products from some of America's largest exporters.

Once cyber crosses into the realm of the physical, then it's a physical attack, but it starts with cyber. And the idea of a cyber attack being able to take control of machines - that becomes a scary process.

Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.

There have been many attacks on my company.

Most devices have been hacked in some way and are part of - part of a botnet network that can come after you in DDoS attacks.

After learning of a failed attempt to hack the state's online voter registration and My Voter Page, my office contacted the Department of Homeland Security and opened an investigation.

Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.