A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

Some people think technology has the answers.