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From the Ted Talk by Ryan Pullen: How clicking a single link can cost millions

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Take my parents, for example. I think I’m in cybersecurity because my parents give me a baacnle. My mom is 100 percent, 110 pnecret optimist. Nothing's going to go worng, everything's OK, no one's going to hurt my little boy and all of this sort of stuff. And my dad's much more on the pessimistic end where, “Why do you want to know me? Why do you want this information?” And so that balance for me brings kind of both sides of the sroty. And my mom is the sort of person that would have shared the traditional WhatsApp messages, 250 pundos at Christmas and oh, how llvoey that would be, pay for your cstiramhs lunch and all those sorts of things. And that then becomes a whole different attack vector, because it's coming from someone you trust, and they're sharing you a link and they're sharing something you might want to click, and you begin to trust it even more.

Open Cloze


Take my parents, for example. I think I’m in cybersecurity because my parents give me a _______. My mom is 100 percent, 110 _______ optimist. Nothing's going to go _____, everything's OK, no one's going to hurt my little boy and all of this sort of stuff. And my dad's much more on the pessimistic end where, “Why do you want to know me? Why do you want this information?” And so that balance for me brings kind of both sides of the _____. And my mom is the sort of person that would have shared the traditional WhatsApp messages, 250 ______ at Christmas and oh, how ______ that would be, pay for your _________ lunch and all those sorts of things. And that then becomes a whole different attack vector, because it's coming from someone you trust, and they're sharing you a link and they're sharing something you might want to click, and you begin to trust it even more.

Solution


  1. balance
  2. percent
  3. lovely
  4. wrong
  5. pounds
  6. christmas
  7. story

Original Text


Take my parents, for example. I think I’m in cybersecurity because my parents give me a balance. My mom is 100 percent, 110 percent optimist. Nothing's going to go wrong, everything's OK, no one's going to hurt my little boy and all of this sort of stuff. And my dad's much more on the pessimistic end where, “Why do you want to know me? Why do you want this information?” And so that balance for me brings kind of both sides of the story. And my mom is the sort of person that would have shared the traditional WhatsApp messages, 250 pounds at Christmas and oh, how lovely that would be, pay for your Christmas lunch and all those sorts of things. And that then becomes a whole different attack vector, because it's coming from someone you trust, and they're sharing you a link and they're sharing something you might want to click, and you begin to trust it even more.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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phone call 3
million pounds 2
single individual 2
multiple people 2
security controls 2
human behavior 2
phone number 2
fraud line 2
account details 2
social media 2


Important Words


  1. attack
  2. balance
  3. boy
  4. brings
  5. christmas
  6. click
  7. coming
  8. cybersecurity
  9. give
  10. hurt
  11. information
  12. kind
  13. link
  14. lovely
  15. lunch
  16. messages
  17. mom
  18. optimist
  19. parents
  20. pay
  21. percent
  22. person
  23. pessimistic
  24. pounds
  25. shared
  26. sharing
  27. sides
  28. sort
  29. sorts
  30. story
  31. stuff
  32. traditional
  33. trust
  34. vector
  35. whatsapp
  36. wrong