“We have confirmed that there was entry to our server by a hacker. Not all the accounts were affected. We know which ones were affected and we notified the customers and the issuing bank immediately after (we had) confirmation of the (security breach).”
Christopher Keller
“Hackers are starting to deploy tactics that bypass stronger authentication schemes. We have seen a Trojan program that did not have to trick victims out of revealing their password, but instead waited for the victim to check their bank balance and the Trojan then silently siphoned money out of the account. We expect this kind of activity to become more prevalent as banks move to stronger forms of authentication, as tactics typically change only when they need to.”
Alex Shipp
“A hacker can jump onto any residential wireless connection and just go to town. Hackers have an underground network set up to trade illegal information. And with wireless, there's been an explosion of information for sale.”
Cory Michal
“Because so many hacking attacks are not from the hackers' computer, but are instead spread throughout a system of many computers, that is one reason it is difficult for law enforcement.”
Rob Ayoub
“Not every hacker is a cracker,”
Marc Maiffret
“To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.”
Ira Winkler
“He's played with Tiger, OK? ... He's a good golfer. I'm a hacker. I think he just gets a good chuckle out of watching me play.”
Eugene Levy
