I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

You can't go to Windows Update and get a patch for stupidity.

The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.

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

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

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.

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.