Infosec Memes

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Is Anybody Using This Private Key

Is Anybody Using This Private Key
Ah, posting your private key on the internet. The digital equivalent of leaving your house keys under the doormat... except the doormat is in Times Square with a neon sign pointing to it. For the uninitiated, this is showing an OpenSSL-generated RSA private key - the secret half of public-key cryptography that should NEVER be shared. It's basically the master key to your digital kingdom. Posting it online is security suicide. Ten years of hardening your infrastructure just to casually drop your private key in a screenshot. Classic.

Million Dollar Security, Five Cent Password

Million Dollar Security, Five Cent Password
Companies spending millions on fancy security programs only to have some exec use "admin/admin" as their credentials is the digital equivalent of installing a bank vault door on a cardboard box. The CISO builds this elaborate security fortress while some VP is basically leaving the keys under the doormat. And the best part? When the inevitable breach happens, guess who gets blamed? Not the genius who thought "admin" was a password that would stump hackers from 1995.

Welcome To The Red Team, Junior

Welcome To The Red Team, Junior
That moment when the fresh CS grad in a Hawaiian shirt meets the grizzled security expert who's been breaking systems since before the internet had a name. "Red team" isn't about communism, kid—it's about showing companies how spectacularly their security fails by actively hacking them. The beard alone has seen more zero-days than your entire GitHub history. Hope you brought caffeine for the all-nighter ahead—those corporate firewalls won't pentest themselves!

Double Pentest

Double Pentest
OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of this wordplay! 💀 Two hackers in hoodies staring at their screens while "double penetration" looms above them like some dark prophecy. In cybersecurity, penetration testing (or "pentesting") is when security experts try to break into systems to find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do. But TWO hackers? That's a DOUBLE pentest, honey! The search term's... alternative meaning... just makes this SCANDALOUSLY hilarious. Someone call HR because I am DECEASED! Security professionals everywhere are clutching their mechanical keyboards!

Seems Low

Seems Low
45 billion hack attempts a day? That's what happens when your password is "Password123" and your security question is "What's your favorite bank?" The funniest part is some poor security engineer at JPMorgan is probably looking at these stats thinking, "Hmm, only 45 billion? Must be a slow Tuesday." Meanwhile, their firewall is screaming in binary and their server room sounds like a jet engine. Banking security is just a high-stakes game of whack-a-mole where the moles have advanced degrees in computer science.

Hacker Man

Hacker Man
Ah, the classic "I'm a hacker" flex that crumbles faster than a website with no CSRF protection. This meme perfectly captures that moment when someone brags about their "elite hacking skills" but can't actually name a single CVE number or explain what SQL injection is. It's like claiming you're a chef because you can microwave ramen. The second panel's challenge to "name every vulnerability" is that perfect reality check we all need to deliver to the cousin who "hacked" their ex's Facebook by using a saved password. The final "I set the bar too low" admission is just *chef's kiss* - the universal experience of realizing that in the world of security, the Dunning-Kruger effect has claimed another victim.