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Sunday 7th of December 2025

Cyber security For Equifax to say they decided not to do any notification out of fear of copycats would be like the skipper of the Titanic deciding not to sound the alarm because the ship might hit another iceberg. Michael Farrell, co-director of Georgia Tech's Institute for Information Security & Privacy, quoted in Financial Times, October 2, 2017 [Equifax, the credit reporting company, noticed on July 9 that hackers stole personal information about 145.5 million Americans but delayed announcing the theft until September 7 because they wanted to prepare for possible further attacks, accoding to company executives]  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cyber security If it's smart, it's vulnerable.  Hypponen's Law, named after the renowned Finnish cyber security expert, Mikko Hypponen © 2022 Kwiple.com
Cyber security If that's our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to Moscow. Adam Schiff, responding to Donald Trump's statement that he and Vladimir Putin had discussed “forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, and many other negative things, will be guarded and safe” following talks at the Hamburg G20 meeting © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cyber security Partnering with Putin on a “Cyber Security Unit” is akin to partnering with Assad on a “Chemical Weapons Unit” Marco Rubio, responding to Donald Trump's statement that he and Vladimir Putin had discussed “forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, and many other negative things, will be guarded and safe” following talks at the Hamburg G20 meeting © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Cyber security Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core — — — — — — — — — — — A serial leak of the agency's cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide headline, New York Times, November 12, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com