Cyberattacks Quotes

“The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage”
― Noah Feldman

“Many members of Isis are not sophisticated attackers. The majority of members do not have a technical background. The UCC is predominately capable of hacking soft targets, such as Twitter accounts, and spreading propaganda or defacing websites”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Russia's plan to subvert American democracy by advertising in our echo chambers could not have succeeded, however, if we had not already done most of the hard work of tearing ourselves apart. Foreign enemies did not convince us to start hating each other; we did that ourselves. We wanted to believe that candidates from the other side were murderers and child abusers and that their supporters despised their own country so much that they didn't care. For the cyberattack to succeed - and by all accounts it succeeded beyond anybody's expectations - we had to be prepared to believe the worst things about each other that a hostile foreign spy could invent.”
― Michael Austin, We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition

“Cyberattacks are a threat to infrastructure. A cyberattack on Ukraine's power grid Iin 2015 left 700,000 people without electricity for hours. In 2013, Iranian hackers attacked a dam outside New York City. In 2016, a U.S. court convicted a Russian of attacks that caused more than $169 million in losses to 3,700 financial institutions.”
― Tom Wheeler, From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future

“A cyberattack is a keyboard warrior's greatest weapon.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov