Christopher A. Wray Quotes

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

Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.

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

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.

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.

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.

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

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.

If you don't treat [computer and Internet] security like a religious fanatic, you are going to be hurt like you can't imagine.

There is no data base that is totally secure. The hackers are always one step ahead and have a vested interest in obtaining the data.

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.

We now see hacking taking place by foreign governments and by private individuals all around the world.

Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of things. The challenge that goes with connectivity is always security. The bad guys go wherever the return is, and now it's more lucrative for bad guys to focus on cybercrime than traditional crime.

The sooner we act, the sooner we can start turning the tables on cyberattackers.

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

The Internet is a worldwide platform for sharing information. It is a community of common interests. No country is immune to such global challenges as cybercrime, hacking, and invasion of privacy.

Most hacking incidents that you see are freelancers - maybe government sponsored, maybe not. They are out there trying to steal intellectual property, make some money. Or they might just be hackers who want to damage something for whatever reason. That's a fact of life that internet companies deal with all the time.

What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic espionage and extremely lucrative cyber crime.

There's not really any safe places on the Internet.

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.