Quotes by Rob Ayoub

“In the past, it has always been if the company signs it, then it must be authentic. Microsoft needs to look at the digital signing process or else we will see more things like this and that is pretty dangerous because that gets around some of the safeguards that are supposed to keep these things out.”

“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.”

“The Internet changed how the viruses were distributed, but the driver for why it is more financial now is that [the computer] is so integrated in our daily lives. Fraud has been out their for years. Now, instead of bad checks, criminals acquire credit-card numbers online.”

“As far as a lot of smaller companies go, theres always a risk but they have a reasonable amount of security through obscurity. If they take reasonable steps, they are pretty safe because theyre not public targets and dont have the notoriety of a U.S. Air Force or Pentagon.”

“There is some overreaction. It has a lot to do with education. The biggest problem we have right now is mostly consumer and user education.”

“Keystroke logging is one of the oldest security tricks in the book. Hackers know now that if [they] can get one username and password, [theyre] going to have pretty good luck getting into a number of different accounts.”

“There are a lot of enhancements that maybe they should have done a year ago [in Windows XP]. There are a lot of things that needed to be put in for a while, and if [Vista] works as advertised, it ought to be very helpful to consumers.”

“Its good because things like the Internet Explorer notification will probably be enabled automatically along with some of the other security features you wont be able to turn off. Security is just necessary and its good if it is enabled by default.”

“Why arent the banks explaining the rules of the game in online banking? Why dont they have flash screens at ATMs on the safety of their technology and steps for using it properly?”

“That definitely can have an affect on a corporate network.”