I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

There is no patch for stupidity.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

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.

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

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

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 engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

Putting a smile on a child's face can change the world, Maybe not the whole world but at least their world!

I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

If we take good care of one another, God will take care of us.

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.