New Hire Cybersecurity Making Your Job Worse

The cat's name is actually a fork bomb - a malicious command that will crash your Linux system faster than you can say "meow." For the uninitiated, :(){:|:&};: is a bash function that calls itself twice each time it runs, creating an exponential process explosion that will bring your system to its knees. It's basically the digital equivalent of this cat knocking everything off your desk... except it's your entire operating system. Pro tip: Don't pet strange bash functions, no matter how cute they look.

Ah, the classic cryptography trio! In security modeling, Alice and Bob are the standard characters who want to communicate securely, while Mallory is the malicious attacker intercepting their messages. But here, poor Mallory has been replaced by The Atlantic magazine—implying they're now the ones snooping on everyone's conversations and spreading them to the world. Journalists: the new man-in-the-middle attack! Ten years in cybersecurity and I still can't decide which is more dangerous.

Someone just ransomwared your database and they're only asking for 0.0048 BTC ($150)? That's the digital equivalent of having your car stolen and the thief leaving a note saying "I'll give it back for bus fare." Detroit's cyber criminals apparently have the same pricing strategy as their street criminals - dirt cheap and oddly specific.

OH. MY. GOD. That's not an eldritch ghost - it's a catastrophic memory corruption that's turned this poor laptop into a digital hellscape! 😱 The screen is LITERALLY BLEEDING corrupted data and random characters like some kind of possessed computer demon! And the file size at the bottom? "71,022 bytes" - that's not a file, that's a CRIME SCENE! The most terrifying part? The "Im Scare.mp3" in the file list - as if this computer KNEW it was about to summon the digital apocalypse! This is what happens when you try to exit Vim without reading the manual first! 💀

BREAKING NEWS: Firefox caught in the most scandalous case of split personality EVER! 🔥 The browser smugly claims it "never has, never will" sell your data while its source code LITERALLY contains the exact same promise! The audacity! The drama! The complete lack of contradiction! Meanwhile, Chrome is in the corner selling your browsing history to seven different ad networks before you've even finished reading this sentence. Firefox is that friend who makes a big show about not gossiping and then actually... doesn't gossip. How DARE they be consistent?!

The ultimate case of mistaken identity! This person confused McDonald's McCafé coffee with McAfee antivirus software and is genuinely upset their computer still has viruses after buying coffee. It's like trying to fix your car by eating a wrench. Next up: buying Apple products to keep doctors away and installing Windows to improve home ventilation. The desperate cry of "I buy your product & my PC still has virus" is peak tech support nightmare fuel—somewhere a McAfee engineer is screaming into their actual coffee.