Friday, February 27th, 2026: A Date With Inevitable Disappointment

Oh for f**k’s sake, the SANS Internet Storm Center has dropped another Stormcast for Friday, February 27th, 2026. Because apparently what the security industry needs isn’t fewer breaches or smarter users, but another goddamn audio file full of people desperately trying to explain why “suspicious.exe” probably shouldn’t be run with administrative privileges. Groundbreaking sh*t, right there.

You know what will happen? Management will hear this podcast, have a sudden spasm of competence, and mandate that every single employee listens to it during their lunch break. Then they’ll quiz you on it. Meanwhile, Deborah from HR is currently typing her credentials into a website that looks suspiciously like “micr0s0ft-secur1ty.ru” because someone promised her a free gift card. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t stop it from drowning itself in its own stupidity.

The podcast probably covers the usual suspects: some new CVE that everyone’s patching three months too late, phishing campaigns that are about as subtle as a brick through a window, and the revolutionary idea that you should backup your data. Wow. Truly cutting-edge. Meanwhile, I’ve got tickets piling up because people can’t figure out why their computer is “slow” after they installed seventeen browser toolbars and three crypto miners. Spoiler alert: It’s because you’re a f**king moron, not because of some sophisticated zero-day.

If you really want to torture yourself: https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32752

Speaking of security awareness, I once had a user who insisted he was “too smart” to fall for phishing. So I sent him an email promising a free upgrade to the latest coffee machine firmware. The idiot not only clicked the link, he entered his domain admin credentials to “authorize the installation.” I locked him in the server room for three hours with nothing but a CRT monitor displaying the Windows 98 blue screen of death on loop. He came out quieter, paler, and significantly more respectful of the “Delete” key. They don’t make users like they used to—mainly because I’ve trained them properly.

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