Chris Hansen Quotes

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

It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.

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

Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours.

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

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.

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.

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

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

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.

We are vulnerable in the military and in our governments, but I think we're most vulnerable to cyber attacks commercially. This challenge is going to significantly increase. It's not going to go away.

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.

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

Every day, we learn of more cyber attacks in our nation and around the world. In the United States, these attacks have the potential to destroy our military and economic security and, perhaps, impact the process we use to elect our leaders.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

There is the possibility to be suddenly arrested for hacking.

Unfortunately cybercrime is the crime of our generation.

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.

Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.

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.

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

Spam filters are supposed to block e-mail scams from ever reaching us, but criminals have learned to circumvent them by personalizing their notes with information gleaned from the Internet and by grooming victims over time.

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

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.