Tag: cybersecurity

This meme shows a sequence where a person sitting in a car spots a figure running enthusiastically toward them from a distance. The runner sprints at full speed directly to the car, then aggressively confronts the person from the vehicle. The recurring caption above the footage reads "Hackers when Windows 10 stopped receiving security patches:". The joke satirizes the impact of Microsoft ending security update support for the Windows 10 operating system: once official patches stop, unpatched Windows 10 devices will have unaddressed security vulnerabilities, making them extremely valuable targets for hackers, who are portrayed as the over-eager runner rushing to exploit these newly exposed insecure systems.

That was not a good time

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This is a single-panel static meme using a popular handshake scene from the US sitcom *The Office*. The smiling older man on the left is labeled "MY BOSS CONGRATULATING ME FOR NOT FALLING FOR THE PHISHING TEST", shaking hands with the younger, blank/confused looking man on the right, who is labeled "ME, WHO HAS 4,000 UNREAD EMAILS". The core ironic joke is that the employee is being praised for good cybersecurity awareness, when he actually passed the phishing test purely by accident because he never checks or opens his emails at all, so he never encountered the test phishing message.

Accidentally a security expert

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This meme displays a screenshot of a phishing email pretending to be an official Microsoft password reset request. The sender email is shown as noreply@rnicrosoft.com, a typosquatted domain that adds an 'r' before 'microsoft', making it look nearly identical to the real microsoft.com domain to casual viewers. The top of the meme reads 'The scammers are evolving' followed by a skull emoji, with the fake domain circled and annotated to call out the 'rn' prefix. The joke, as referenced in the original post context, is that people who frequently use the internet slang 'rn' (short for 'right now') will immediately notice the 'rn' at the start of the fake domain, recognizing the scam instantly.

Scammers are evolving with tricky fake Microsoft email domain

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The image is a screenshot of two consecutive Twitter/X posts. The first post by user @Jeremyybtc shows a photo of a phishing email disguised as an official Microsoft password reset request. The sender email appears to be noreply@microsoft.com at a quick glance, but an annotation highlights that the actual domain is "rnicrosoft.com", where adjacent letters 'r' and 'n' visually mimic the letter 'm' to trick users. The first post caption reads "The scammers are evolving 💀". The second post, a reply from user @lifeandtimesv, says "Not gonna lie, on Monday like this they would have gotten my ass 😭", referencing how easy it is to miss the subtle typo when tired or unfocused at the start of a work week.

Scammers use 'rnicrosoft' typo to trick users

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This image is a screenshot of a social media post from a user with the display name 'patchmeifyoucan.exe' (accompanied by shield and skull emojis) and handle @HRPhishingDept. The post details a humorous phishing scenario: the poster disguised a malicious executable file as '2026_Salary_Increase.pdf.exe' to trick company employees into opening it. The joke reveals that half of the company, including the cybersecurity Incidence Response Team responsible for preventing these exact attacks, fell for the bait and opened the file, followed by a crying laughing emoji. The humor derives from the irony that even trained security staff cannot resist the universal hope of getting a salary raise, aligning with the original title of the meme that states you can patch technical system vulnerabilities but you cannot patch human hope.

You can patch systems. But you cannot patch hope.

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This image is a screenshot of a Twitter conversation between two users joking about 1990s IT security. The first user Patrick shares a photo of a locked storage box for vintage 5.25-inch floppy disks, with the lock circled in orange, and jokes that this was IT security back in the 90s. A second user Chuck replies that while the physical lock may look silly now, the data stored on those floppies cannot be hacked remotely from halfway across the world, pointing out the unarguable benefit of physical air-gapped security compared to modern connected systems. The original Reddit post this was shared from also notes that the box can be misidentified as a Super Nintendo console at first glance.

This Was IT Security In The 90s

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A two-panel meme featuring characters from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The top panel shows a mentor figure (likely Splinter) leading four turtle characters, with the text 'DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS' overlaid. The bottom panel depicts the same group with two additional pieces of advice: 'DON'T GIVE YOUR DATA TO STRANGERS' and 'NEVER CLICK ON AN UNKNOWN LINK'. The characters are presented in an animated style, standing in a serious formation, repurposed to humorously convey internet safety tips.

TMNT Teaching Internet Safety Tips

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