A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

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

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.