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

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines.

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.